To know Karachi is to surrender to its motion, a metropolis that expands, contracts, and reinvents itself each day. Here, photographer Umer Sheikh shares the books that chart its many lives.
Karachi stories are incomplete without the stories of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, Mai Kolachi (who the city is named after), and the connections it uniquely has to modern day Oman, Yemen, and E/horn of Africa, particularly with legendary characters like Mangoh Pir and Hosh Mohammed.
I’ve included this post in my Book Lovin’ Days site. I hope you don’t mind.
Umer! Always such a joy to get your recommendations ❤️ Loved reading this!
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Thank you, I have read some of these and have added the rest to my list.
Karachi stories are incomplete without the stories of Abdullah Shah Ghazi, Mai Kolachi (who the city is named after), and the connections it uniquely has to modern day Oman, Yemen, and E/horn of Africa, particularly with legendary characters like Mangoh Pir and Hosh Mohammed.