Mohammed Hanif
Mohammed Hanif was born in Pakistan. After leaving the Pakistan Air Force Academy to pursue a career in journalism, he worked for Newsline, India Today, and The Washington Post. He has written plays for the stage and screen, including a critically acclaimed BBC drama and the feature film The Long Night. Hanif is a graduate of University of East Anglia’s creative writing programme. He is currently head of BBC’s Urdu Service and lives in London.
All Books By Mohammed Hanif
Our Lady of Alice Bhatti
- By: Mohammed Hanif
- Narrator: Nimra Bucha
- Length: 7 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 29, 2012
- Language: English
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3.4(2152 ratings)
The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital need a miracle. Alice Bhatti may be just what they’re looking for. She’s just been released from the Borstal Jail. She’s the daughter of a part-time healer, and it seems she has inherited his gift. With a bit of begrudging but inspired improvisation, Alice begins to bring succor to the patients. But all is not miraculous. Alice is a Christian in an Islamic world, ensnared in the red tape of hospital bureaucracy, torn between her duty to her patients, her father and her husband – who is about to drag Alice into a situation so dangerous that perhaps not even a miracle will be able to save them. But, of course, Alice Bhatti is no ordinary young woman…
... Read moreRed Birds
- By: Mohammed Hanif
- Narrator: David Bendena
- Length: 7 hours 41 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: May 14, 2019
- Language: English
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3.2(1038 ratings)
An American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb. After days spent wandering and hallucinating from dehydration, Major Ellie is rescued by one of the camp’s residents, a teenager named Momo, whose entrepreneurial money-making schemes are failing as his family is falling apart: his older brother, Ali, left for his first day of work at an American base and never returned; his parents are at each other’s throats; his dog, Mutt, is having a very bad day; and an earthy-crunchy aid worker has shown up wanting to research him for her book on the Teenage Muslim Mind. Amidst the madness, Momo sets out to search for his brother Ali, hoping his new Western acquaintances might be able to help find him. But as the truth of Ali’s whereabouts begin to unfold, the effects of American “aid” on this war-torn country are revealed to be increasingly pernicious.
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