Killing the Buddha

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Abbas Zaidi

Abbas Zaidi is a Pakistani journalist, writer and teacher. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in New York Press, Exquisite Corpse, Best of GOWANUS, New Partisan, Salt River Review, Eclectica, The Salisbury Review, and Southern Oceanic Review. He is GOWANUS’s Asian Editor and teaches English in Brunei Darussalam. He can be reached here.

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The Passions of Khalifa Hakeem

The Passions of Khalifa Hakeem

by Abbas Zaidi

A cub reporter gets on the bus with the Pakistani big boys.

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The Moderate

The Moderate

by Abbas Zaidi

A tale of Westernization, lubricated by beer.