Title: Beyond our degrees of separation /
Authors: Miʻrāj, Muḥammad Ḥasan,; Ravin, Judith, 1958-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Ravin, Judith, Travel Pakistan.; Miʻrāj, Muḥammad Ḥasan Travel United States.; Pakistan. Biography.; Diplomats United States Biography; Diplomats Pakistan Biography.; Pakistan Description and travel.; United States Description and travel.; Pakistan Foreign relations United States.; United States Foreign relations Pakistan.
Abstract: "intersection between the United States and Pakistan. Hailing from oxymoronic bureaucracies, co-authors Ravin and Miraj transcend their respective realms of diplomacy and the military to reaffirm commonalities beyond differences. The alternating narratives trace their real-life discovery of equivalent experiences within dissimilar worlds. From an off-hand discussion during a one-off encounter, they embark on a project to prove that words and culture have the power to transform. Themes include displacement, social justice, cross-border issues, terrorism, loss, and interfaith harmony. Beyond Our Degrees of Separation delights in the documentation of that journey, along with all journeys, and demonstrates how travel and fate obey their own logic, ever-populating with wonderment the imagination of the "geographically disturbed" - those who live in perpetual wanderlust." -- from publisher web site.
Contents: Beyond our degress of separation -- Yesterday and tomorrow -- Hamlets of the North -- Pre-monsoon Eid -- Fatima to fatima -- Four blind brothers -- We all serve knowledge -- Service exchange -- Geographically disturbed -- Boxed memories -- Bangles, lesson one -- First day -- Obama's tailor -- In search of a wedding -- Lots of many languages -- Home -- Your time is the right time -- Sacred sets of four -- One tribe to another -- Seven sketches -- First family food courts -- Pigeon courier network -- Taliban money -- Dogs beyond borders -- For lack of signage -- Nine pieces of luggage -- Dry clean only -- Conversations in time -- Everything, then nothing -- Dad diaries -- Room full of cognates -- Entire ocean in a drop -- November blues -- The last worst time -- Remorse -- Capital contained -- Some are born hosts -- Conversation with a two-toned Alsatian -- Reading below the poverty line -- High contrast -- Barbecue cell -- Pakistan, you have a medical school there? -- America. Bad country, good country -- Rule of thirds through a grated window -- The award -- Pull of the tides -- Interfaith tuk-tuk -- Moon splendor reset -- A letter from Siachen -- Open letter to a Pakistani public -- Afterward.