you can't tell me he's NOT an indian agent..
In Bollum 24. S2 EP 8
Sultan has a big debt and no money to pay it while thinking about how to pay it he is shown a dream of when Osman Gazi told Sheikh Edabli about the dream(The plane tree and crescent entering Osman's chest).
This is where it gets interesting and probably inaccurate. In Payithat when Osman narrates the dream Sheikh Edabli gives the sword of Osman (RA). Sword symbolizing the founding of a new state and because of the sword, the Turkmen followed Osman. Additionally, this continues to get slightly more bizarre it is said that the first of Osman's war booty against the Byzantines was handed to Sheikh Edabli to safe keep in the event that the state falls and another one needed to be founded or the state is is some big trouble. This money passed down through many sheikhs. The sultans don't even know where exactly so that they don't use it for evil.
To learn of the whereabouts of the money Sultan Caliph Abdulhamid needs to take the sword of Osman(RA) to Jummah in order for whoever the Sheikh that has it to understand the government is trouble and the safety deposit needs to be made available to the sultan.
Additionally, somehow the chest has the Ottoman Caliph's flag on the top somehow when it hasn't been opened for 700 years at that point.
In KO we haven't seen the sword of Osman(RA) neither have we seen Osman giving gold to Sheikh Edabali. In PAH the dream and sword episode is said to have happened in 1299. So the question lies is this story true? To me, it doesn't seem plausible.
Do we think Hamid will get any starts at the Gold Cup? At his age, with his experience, I honestly wouldn't blame him if he was like thanks but no thanks.
I think playing for USMNT is pinnacle honor etc but at a certain point he's gotta think "whatever they're never gonna make me a #1 so...."
If I told you that you will ride the bench for the rest of your USMNT career unless someone gets injured would you keep going? If you've gone many times before?
I watched Yanks Report predictions and he didn't even have Hamid as potential 3rd string, had Marcinkowski and Ochoa above him, neither of whom make the provisional roster! No respect!
I saw that Exit West by Moshin Hamid was on the New York Times top ten for 2017 so I decided to give it a go and was left with a "meh" feeling when it was over. Maybe it's just me, but this magical realism / postmodern literature isn't for me.
Hamid does have a great command written English so I give him credit for writing descriptively well and easy to follow. I enjoyed the first quarter of the book which lays out the relationship between two lovers, Saeed and Nadia, in an unnamed war torn country and their family dynamics. I sympathized with the two main characters because of the impending hell that was surrounding them and the tragedies that impacted their city and its residents. The story is also sprinkled with little vignettes of people around the world from Tokyo, the Netherlands, Tijuana and some other city which I can't remember. I don't think that helped move the story and I assume it's a postmodern way of telling a story.
The magic doors in which the characters move from their original city onto Greece then to London and then to Marin, California was magical in that it was a portal to escape from one part of the world and then get transported to the next. For some readers this magic may have been compelling, but I thought it was bland and the story got repetitive about herds of unwanted refugees from all over the world and how the native population was not welcoming to say the least.
I will give credit to Hamid for adding something new to the old refugee experience story told in a magical realism narrative, but it did not work for me. Thankfully the novel was short and overall I give it a 3/5.
Some news apparently came out this week about him; what’s the hubbub about?
