Beyond Beliefs

This epic memoir recounts the compelling and extraordinary tale of Sohail’s parents and grandparents, whose lives were engulfed by momentous events of the 20th century. His parents were separated by birthplace, race, faith, language and age, but their common experience of unimaginable loss and upheaval ultimately brought them together in London.

Their love story was complicated and unconventional, but enduring. It is a testament to human spirit overcoming tragedy and adversity.
They married in Karachi in 1948, just months after the tumultuous creation of Pakistan and days before the creation of Israel, homelands for their respective faiths. And at a time when Jews and Muslims are committing unspeakable violence against each other, this story could not be more poignant.

Sohail’s evocative prose delivers a deeply personal insight into his family’s journey that spans continents and cultures. It exposes the horrific consequences of war and violent extremism, and the struggles faced by immigrants and refugees, still very relevant today. In places distressing, frequently emotive and sometimes amusing, this powerful thought-provoking homage reveals amazing discoveries, astonishing coincidences and history repeating itself.