Twins turn interest in human behaviour into a novel
Jen Gerson
Last Updated: January 15. 2010 12:22AM UAE / January 14. 2010 8:22PM GMT
DUBAI // Being twins helps, they say. Mariam and Fatima Masood share a room in their family’s apartment in Karama, dress in matching clothes, use matching black laptops with identical red criss-cross coverings, and work in the same school.
They say they can no longer tell who wrote what in their book, I Know Who You Are, which was published last March and is available locally.
“Our minds think so alike,” says Fatima, or Mariam – in their matching white and blue salwars and black hijabs, it is difficult to tell the two apart although they say their family can identify Mariam, the elder by 11 minutes, by her slightly rounder face. The sisters turned 26 in December.
I Know Who You Are, which is written in English, follows a young boy, Sultan, as he discovers through a mystical inheritance from his grandfather the knowledge of different personality types and how to spot them.
Mariam and Fatima, whose family comes from Pakistan, began working on the book in 2007. They said they knew they wanted to take on a major project and both were fascinated by their observations of peoples’ personalities.
From this, they developed the concept of character skins – behaviours common to particular personalities. Each of the five skins is identified by a physical trait: hammerhead, sticklip, scuff, flip side and headspin ……CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE
