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Podcast: MIXTAPE Podcast
Episode: S1E1: MIXTAPE Book Club with Musharraf Ali Farooqi
Description: The Merman and the Book of Power brings into the English the classical qissa genre, a fabulist storytelling form common to the oral and written literatures of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. Â
Musharraf Ali Farooqi through this qissa gives life to magical creatures, ill-starred lovers, and the phenomena that might bring the world to its end.