
The Dissident Club
Chronicle of a Pakistani Journalist in Exile
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Product details:
- Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press
- Date of Publication 22 May 2025
- ISBN 9781551529530
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 288x210 mm
- Weight 908 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 272 700
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Long description:
In Islamabad in 2018, Pakistani investigative journalist Taha Siddiqui is kidnapped at gunpoint and barely escapes being killed. He flees the country on the first plane to France with questions left unanswered: What motivated the attack? Was the tyrannical Pakistani military involved? The Dissident Club is an action-packed graphic memoir about Islamic politics, complex family dynamics, and one man's dedication to truth and principle. With illustrator Hubert Maury, Siddiqui, winner of the prestigious journalism award Prix Albert Londres, tells the story of his intriguing life and career, beginning with his childhood in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan under the stern gaze of a fundamentalist Islamic father. Taha rebels against his religion, but his personal freedom is constrained by strict Islam, especially after his father joins a jihadi mosque. Following the Gulf War and then the shock caused by 9/11, Taha enters university and begins his personal emancipation. He becomes a journalist, but as he reveals the crimes of the Pakistani military, he learns the hard way that journalists are moving targets. Once in Paris, he opens the Dissident Club, a bar dedicated to helping political dissidents from around the world. An expansive Pakistani coming-of-age story, The Dissident Club documents Taha's experiences as a young man fighting for truth and justice against the harsh backdrop of Islamic fundamentalism and corruption.
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