Boyet ahmed biography

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

March 26, 2012
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1. First of all: the sheer chutzpah, to write a comedy about Guantanamo. But comedy it is: Boyet (Boy) Hernandez, just-off-the-jet fashion designer from the Philippines and armed with a degree from the Fashion Institute of Makati; landing wide-eyed and hungry in New York to get the "dollar dollar bill y'all;" roaming through an underworld filled with exotic models, Williamsburg hipsters, and bad performance art; then, in a narrative shift worthy of a comedy of (t)errors, arrested and spirited away to Guantanamo as a "fashion terrorist." A comedy set in Guantanamo is too soon, one might say, but as the detention camp just celebrated its tenth birthday, one may argue that remembering it is not soon enough.

But is it funny? Oh yes, often hilariously, but sometimes, smugly so. (More about this later.) The novel is, at its core, a stinging sendup of the fashion industry (though all I know of Fashion Week, on which Boy's labors are focused, is when the inevitable profiles of designers appear in The New

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    Allah Bukhash

    Biography

    Ustad Allah Bakhsh is known in Pakistan’s painting history as a nature lover. His paintings project rural
    landscapes and people en masse. He was born around 1895 in British India (in modern-day Wazirabad,
    Pakistan). He spent most of his life in Lahore. At first, he attended a Madrasa to study Urdu and Arabic,
    however, he subsequently left school. His father was a house painter who used to work at Mughalpura
    Railway Workshop. He recognized for illustrating the rural life and landscape specifically of Punjab on his
    canvas. Ustad Allah Bakhsh paved his name as a person who took charge of the folk art on the canvas.
    The basic theme of his mind's eye revolves around the local and folk cultural heritage, but some his art
    mulled over by classical western art, which is reflected through the paintings of Hindu mythological
    characters. He is considered as the novice of landscape and figurative painting in Pakistan. Due to his
    peculiar thoughtfulness he become only practitioner in the contemporary style landscapes until Khalid
    Iqbal introduced modern realis

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