This issue features a few brief tales from Shamcher’s three years in Turkey. The first two are from an interview with Wali Ali and the other, about the King of Afghanistan, is from his book, Planet Earth Demands. We end with one of Shamcher’s favourite stories about the afterlife.
This comment from Hafizullah: A shamshīr شَمْشِير (“lion’s fang”) is a kind of cutlass, and Westernized to “scimitar.” “Shamcher” is a European spelling of شَمْشِير.
This comment from Hafizullah: A shamshīr شَمْشِير (“lion’s fang”) is a kind of cutlass, and Westernized to “scimitar.” “Shamcher” is a European spelling of شَمْشِير.
And the King’s adab was most impeccable.