Biographies
Benazir Bhutto short Bio
Saturday, November 21st, 2009On December 2, 1988 Benazir Bhutto was sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islamic State. In the preceding decade of political struggle, Ms. Bhutto was arrested on numerous occasions; in all she spent nearly 6 years either in prison or under detention for her [...]
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (January 5, 1928 – April 4, 1979) was a Pakistani politician who served as prime minister of Pakistan from 1973 – 1977. He was one of the few non-military men to have ruled the nation.
Bhutto was born in Larkana, Pakistan the only son of Sir Shah Nawaz Bhutto. He completed his early [...]
Suheir Hammad (1973-Present)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Suheir Hammad was born in Amman, Jordan to Palestinian refugee parents on October 25, 1973. Suheir’s family immigrated to Brooklyn NY when Suheir was five years old, and she was raised there until the age of sixteen. Her parents moved to Staten Island while Suheir was in high school. Enough of that personal history, thanks.
Suheir [...]
Martha Collins (1940-Present)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Martha Collins was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1940. Collins is the author of four books of poetry: Some Things Words Can Do (Sheep Meadow Press, 1998); History of a Small Life on a Windy Planet (1993); The Arrangement of Space (1991), winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Competition; and The Catastrophe of Rainbows (1985). [...]
Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), whose real name is Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto, was born on 12 July, 1904, in the town of Parral in Chile. His father was a railway employee and his mother, who died shortly after his birth, a teacher. Some years later his father, who had then moved to the town of Temuco, [...]
Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941)
Sunday, November 1st, 2009Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Tagore was awarded the knighthood in 1915, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators protesting colonial laws. Tagore’s reputation in the [...]
