The Best Of Friends For 35 years, photographer Howard Bingham has traveled the globe, meeting princes and presidents, all thanks to his selfless devotion to a buddy, Muhammad Ali, who happens to be the most famous man in the world.
"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature." What is distinctive about Bingham is not only that he has been in Ali's corner all this time--good god, he even went along on one of Ali's honeymoons ... at the invitation of the bride--but also that he is no less ...
Although Ali loses and then regains the heavyweight title (for a record 3rd time) in a series of subsequent fights, the Burns film covers Ali’s later damaging bouts and staying in the fight game too long, and the development of his Parkinson’s disease. His post-retirement years after 19...
Iqbal, M. (1935) Bal-e-Jibril (Gabriel's Wing), Lahore: Shaikh Mubarak Ali. (Iqbal's second volume of poetry in Urdu is an acknowledged masterpiece in terms of its literary quality and its prophetic call to action.)Iqbal, M. (1936) Zarb-e-alim (The Stroke of Moses), Lahore: ...
The man was a respected long-time acquaintance of mine, and I knew that I was going to lose a friend and a supporter. As expected, he tried his best to convince me to agree to the loan: ‘Professor Yunus, you don’t even need to draw down a single taka, all you have to do is...