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	Pilgrims flock to Kabul to pay tribute to the Afghan Elvis \| Special reports \| Guardian Unlimited
		Zahir's devotees now flock in their thousands to pay tribute to Afghanistan's only modern celebrity, a man popularly called the "Afghan Elvis".
		Zahir emerged as a musical prodigy at Kabul's Habibir high school, hence another moniker, the Nightingale of Habibir.
		His father, the former prime minister Mohamed Zahir, disapproved of his son's choice of career but was placated after a walk with the boy through Kabul's main bazaar: more people recognised the 15-year-old singer than the 50-year-old prime minister.
	www.guardian.co.uk /afghanistan/story/0,1284,1095019,00.html (565 words)

	Zahir, a journal of speculative fiction
		Zahir is edited by Sheryl Tempchin and is published by Zahir Publishing three times a year in February, June, and October.
		Zahir is a tri-annual print journal dedicated to publishing the best in speculative fiction by both new and established writers.
		"Zahir has carved a nice niche publishing highly literary and usually somewhat lyrical stories at the fantastical end of the slipstream spectrum."
	www.zahirtales.com (240 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Profile: Ex-king Zahir Shah
		Born in Kabul in 1914, Zahir Shah was educated in France and was only 19 when he ascended the throne in 1933 after his father was assassinated.
		Zahir Shah brought in foreign advisers, founded the first modern university, and fostered cultural and commercial relations with Europe.
		Zahir Shah's youngest son, Mirwais, told the Washington Post newspaper that his family wanted to see Afghanistan "have peace and for the people to decide their government in a democratic manner, with free elections".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/south_asia/1573181.stm (517 words)

	Mohammed Zahir Shah Summary
		Muhammad Zahir Shah (born 1914), last in the 226-year dynasty of Pashtun monarchs to rule Afghanistan, emerged in the fall of 2001 as a symbol of unity for his country as its hard-line Taliban rulers were dislodged from power.
		Zahir Shah remained a potent symbol for those desiring the restoration of the monarchy, however, and in 1991 was stabbed three times by an unknown assailant in a suspected political assassination attempt.
		Zahir is seen by some critics as having been, during Afghanistan's most difficult moments under the fundamentalist Islamic regime of the Taliban, remaining comfortably secluded in Italy and refusing to speak out against the Taliban.
	www.bookrags.com /Mohammed_Zahir_Shah (2748 words)

	Zahir Shah, Muhammad - MSN Encarta
		Zahir was overthrown in a political coup that abolished the Afghan monarchy and precipitated decades of war and political chaos.
		Born in the Afghan capital of Kābul, Zahir was the son of Muhammad Nadir Shah, who served Afghan king Amanullah as commander in chief of the Afghan army, leading troops in the Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919-1921).
		Zahir ascended to the throne in November 1933, at the age of 19, after witnessing the assassination of his father during a public ceremony in Kābul.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_701610406/Zahir_Shah_Muhammad.html (661 words)

	Borges - Andrew Hurley's "The Zahir and I"
		Borges - Andrew Hurley's "The Zahir and I" The Zahir and I
		By sometime around 1949, the Zahir turned up in Buenos Aires; it had become a common twenty-centavo coin, issued in 1929, into which a penknife or a razor had scratched the letters N T and the number 2.
		Today is the thirteenth of December, 1999; in the summer of 1993 the Zahir came into my hands.
	www.themodernword.com /borges/Zahir_and_I.html (1305 words)

	Vanguard - Arts: Understanding the spiritual energy of Paulo Coelho’s The Zahir…
		THE Zahir, a recent novel by the Brazilian born writer and the world’s second most popular read novelist after John Grisham is no doubt a continuum of the narrative and arresting power-style of Coelho’s spiritual adventure into the very domain of love, obsession, ambition and dreams.
		The term, Zahir according to Encyclopedia of the Fantastic (1953) "comes from the Islamic tradition and is thought to have arisen at some point in the eighteenth century.
		Also, through an informal lecture freely offered by Mikhail, a Kazakhstan nomad, whose own chance meeting with Zahir brings her to the discovery of self; and who is later, to become the irrevocable teacher of the author at the Armenian restaurant, Paulo begins to wear off the cloak of infatuation and frustrated love feelings.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/features/arts/at431072005.html (811 words)

	theage.com.au - The Age -
		Mohammad Zahir Shah, 87, who has not seen his country since he was deposed in a 1973 coup, was due to return from exile in Italy tomorrow.
		Although most Afghans view Zahir Shah as a respected elder who could mediate the country's bitter tribal and ethnic rivalries and discourage power grabs by warlords, his return is not universally welcomed.
		Italian officials said last week that their nation's peacekeeping units wanted to protect the former king during the ride from the airport to his new home, which is in a walled compound.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/03/24/1016843088638.html (722 words)

	Zahir Shah must tread carefully to capitalise on second chance - smh.com.au
		The return to Afghanistan of the former king Mohammed Zahir Shah after 34 years of exile in Italy is expected to have major implications for Afghanistan and its region.
		But Zahir Shah's political role is likely to go beyond the symbolic, giving him an opportunity to address the missed opportunities of his earlier reign and assist Afghans to move down the path of democratic change and stability.
		It is widely argued that the Zahir Shah-Daoud rivalry, together with the monarch personally vacillating too often between what was required to preserve his own powers as a ruling monarch and what was needed to put Afghanistan on a stable path of democratic change and development, laid the foundations for much of Afghanistan's subsequent troubles.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/04/16/1018333501005.html (663 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		In the case of The Zahir, the writer-protagonist begins his journey with a rational approach, and in time he becomes more spiritual in trying to understand his wife's disappearance through several means, circumstances and events.
		A Zahir is something or someone that cannot go unnoticed and a person once in contact with their Zahir would do anything to find it.
		Although the Zahir can drive you to madness, its existence is crucial -- without the Zahir, a person might never have reason to commence their journey to find it.
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20060625.N01 (894 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 891 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The prize-giving programme was held on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Martyr Muneir Chowdhury at Mahila Samity on November 27.
		Zahir started his career as an actor; then he started set designing, light designing.
		Since 1981 Zahir has worked as an organiser, animator and facilitator in Mukto Natak Dal, an indigenous theatre organisation with a vision and mission to develop theatrical activism at the grassroots and rural level, particularly in Sylhet, Sirajganj, Kishoreganj, Tangail and Manikganj.
	www.thedailystar.net /2006/11/29/d611291401134.htm (696 words)

	The Advocate :: News :: Philadelphia City Paper :: Philadelphia Arts, Restaurants, Music, Movies, Jobs, Classifieds, ...
		Early last January, Zahir became the tenth of several hundred Guantanamo detainees to be charged by "military commissions," a set of tribunals established by the Bush administration to try alleged war criminals that were not under the jurisdiction of either U.S. law or international agreements.
		For Bogar's visit, Zahir had been moved from Camp 4, where he lived communally with other detainees, to Camp Echo, where he was placed alone in a small, square room split in two by a cage wall: In one half, there was a bunk, toilet and shower.
		Perhaps opinions on Zahir rendered by Bogar should be taken with a grain of salt, but the lawyer says this doesn't begin to capture the nonthreatening nature of the man's presence.
	www.citypaper.net /articles/2007/01/04/the-advocate (2321 words)

	Az-Zahir
		The esma of Zahir is one of the 99 attributes of Allah.
		It is with this attribute of Zahir that He is manifest, and by seeing this everywhere we bear witness to it.
		The attribute of Zahir, the External, is the outer appearance.
	www.sherifbaba.com /zahir.htm (512 words)

	AhmadZahir.COM - Music
		Ahmad Zahir was born on the 23rd of Jauza, 1325 (June 13, 1946) in Laghman, Afghanistan, the third child of Dr. Abdul Zahir.
		Ahmad Zahir was still a ninth grader when he made appearances on the stage at school concerts with the accordion, his favorite instrument.
		Rishad Zahir informs us, "Most of his compositions were his own for he had a great talent and creativity for composing." He, himself, played the mandolin, accordion, harmonium, and organ.
	www.ahmadzahir.com /biography.html (3271 words)

	Bangladeshinovels.com
		Shahidul Zahir (b 1953) is one of the least acquainted writers of the country, though the true critics do not fail to identify the gems in him.
		Shahidul Zahir’s novels could not draw much reading public; more over he roused a huge storm for the unconventional components in his novels and graded himself as a disputed writer in the country.
		The startling condition of Abdul Majid is because of the rehabilitation of the collaborators in the society.
	www.bangladeshinovels.com /Shahidul_Zahir.html (1264 words)

	The Once and Future King?
		Zahir has already forged an arrangement with the Northern Alliance, so he and his representatives may in fact be able to assemble a broad coalition.
		Agnew met with King Zahir, who discussed his policy priorities, especially the importance of "diplomatic rapport" with the Soviet Union, his powerful northern neighbor, as well as his interest in a U.S. presence (economic aid, etc.) as a balance against Moscow.
		Weeks before the fall of King Zahir, embassy political officer Albert Fairchild prepared a detailed report on Afghani left-wing political movements, with considerable detail on the two communist factions that were named after their publications: Parcham (the Banner) and Khalq (the Masses).
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB59 (2297 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 310 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		According to the locals and the police, Zahir, whose mother was a part time domestic help in the area, grew up in a slum at Poolpar.
		Zahir at the very early stage of his adolescence, got involved with a number of petty thefts.
		It was in the prison, where Zahir got acquainted with top city hoodlums and extortionists, who readily extended a mentoring programme of various criminal offences to him.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/04/12/d4041201055.htm (452 words)

	Zahir
		In the story, the Zahir is an object that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it, so that the affected person perceives less and less of reality and more and more of the Zahir, at first only while asleep, then at all times.
		In other times and places, a tiger has been a Zahir, as well as an astrolabe, the bottom of a well, and a vein of marble in a column of a mosque.
		The Zahir is in many ways the opposite of the Aleph, the subject of another Borges short story also published in the volume The Aleph.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/zahir.php (768 words)

	Zahir Raheem: Against All Odds \| TheSweetScience.com Boxing
		Prior to their fight, Zahir wasn’t as much the focus of the media and it’s ever present hype as was Morales, but since the bout that has changed and Zahir faces the limelight a lot more now, but is not uncomfortable with the attention.
		Having been with Zahir only since April, House was wise in knowing Zahir has a lot of natural ability and worked to get him in the best shape possible to do the things he knows how to do.
		Zahir fills much of his time training and dedicating himself to the sport he loves and down time is something to be appreciated.
	www.thesweetscience.com /boxing-article/2745/zahir-raheem-against-all-odds (2572 words)

	“The Zahir”, Book Review · Self Improvement For Smart Teenagers / Funny Emails And Cell Phone ...
		The concept of the Zahir is very important here, because it puts the entire plot into perspective, which is necessary to grasp the Meta plot of this multi layered and wonderfully complex story.
		zahir means the obvious and apparent reality of something as opposed to “baten” it’s inner secretive reality.
		But Zahir also means “an object that has the power to create an obsession in everyone who sees it so that the affected person perceives less and less of reality.”;
	theblackpawn.com /the-zahir-book-review.php (637 words)

	HBO: Boxing: Fighters: Bio: ZAHIR RAHEEM
		Zahir had fought very good opposition and had several impressive wins to his credit earlier in his career, as well, the most notable an eighth-round knockout against former WBA bantamweight and WBC featherweight world champion Luisito Espinosa in October, 2002.
		Zahir had his only loss as a pro in July, 2004, a close and very controversial 12-round decision against Rocky Juarez.
		On 2-24-03 in Norman, OK, he won a 10 round unanimous decision against Isidro Tejedor (15-11-4): Zahir scored one knockdown in the 4 th round and another in the 5 th, and won by scores of 100-90, 100-90, 99-90...
	www.hbo.com /boxing/fighters/raheem_zahir/bio.html (1380 words)

	Just His Type
		The unnamed narrator at the center of Paulo Coelho's "The Zahir: A Novel of Obsession" is an international best-selling novelist who lives in France and brings in $2 million a year from royalties even when he doesn't publish a book.
		In "The Zahir," the shepherd boy is transformed into a celebrity novelist, and the treasure he's searching for is his wife, Esther, a war correspondent who has disappeared.
		Here is Esther, the Zahir, conveniently transported to where the author wants her, fitting too neatly into the narrator's life.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/24/AR2005082402145_pf.html (642 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Zahir: A Novel of Love, Longing and Obsession: Books: Paulo Coelho (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Zahir is for people who love to give or who have stopped somewhere in their lifes when they still desire to go further.
		In The Zahir, a man with no name wonders why his wife of ten years has left him, and as is the case with most of Coelho’s novels, a pilgrimage begins which leads the central character to question his or her purpose in life and the things that truly matter.
		I don’t think I read anything categorically new in The Zahir but it was elegantly written and is a worthwhile read for anyone looking not so much for the meaning of life, but the purpose of it, and the things that really matter.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Zahir-Novel-Love-Longing-Obsession/dp/0007204167 (1412 words)

	Human Rights First \| Us Law & Security \| The Case of Abdul Zahir
		Abdul Zahir was the first Afghan citizen to be tried before a military commission.
		According to the Department of Defense, Zahir was accused of being a translator for the Taliban in 1997 and then later was a translator and money courier for the alleged commander and accountant of al Qaeda, Abdul Hadi al Iraqi.
		In March 2002, Zahir allegedly was involved in an attack on three foreign journalists in Gardez, Afghanistan.
	www.humanrightsfirst.org /us_law/detainees/cases/zahir.htm (167 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Paulo Coelho - El Zahir/ the Zahir at Epinions.com
		A Zahir is a thing or person that becomes an obsessive subject for someone, an all-consuming item in the mind where reality plays less and less a role.
		The philosophy of The Zahir is that in order to love, you first have to cease to be who you are.
		Unfortunately, while the Zahir is very clever and nicely written, I found too much of it to be pretentious twaddle for my (staid) taste.
	www.epinions.com /content_324718464644 (829 words)

	Afghanland.com Afghanistan Ahmad Zahir
		Ahmad Toryalay Zahir was born on the 23rd of Jauza, 1325 (June 13, 1946) To Dr Abdul Zahir the late prime minister of Afghanistan and his wife.
		Due to an incident still unclear, Ahmad Zahir was imprisoned, there are many theories from an untimely death of a woman to conspiracy and connection with Mafia that landed him in prison.
		Till this day Mahboobullah and the 2 guests have taken a vow of silence as to the details of Ahmad Zahir's death and have repeated the same answer that "they were unconscious and do not remember the events of the day" but several stories were leaked from sources close to the individuals.
	www.afghanland.com /entertainment/music/ahmadzahir.html (770 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion
		The Zahir, which some critics say is a sequel to The Alchemist, is about the spiritual journey of a renowned author which takes him to Spain, France, Croatia and across the central Asian steppes.
		zahir?, a term taken by Jorge Luis Borges from the Islamic tradition and implying a state ?of holiness or of madness?.
		Folklores and anecdotes abound and are woven together in the narrative.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1050729/asp/opinion/story_5033728.asp (399 words)

	Observer review: The Zahir by Paulo Coelho \| By genre \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Gradually he realises that her disappearance is a sort of message, a challenge to him to rethink his emotions and make them worthy of hers.
		She becomes the 'Zahir' of the title, a blinding obsession.
		When he takes up with another woman (strictly to dispel the Zahir, of course), he chooses a successful French actress of 35, on the grounds that she was the only candidate to enjoy his status, 'because she too was famous and knew that celebrity counts'.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1509075,00.html (1132 words)

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