The launch of `Between Clay and Dust’, the new novel by author and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi, will be held here on May 20 at The Second Floor in DHA. According to organizers, the event will include an interactive session with the author and a book reading by Sheema Kermani and poet Afzal Ahmed Syed. The copies of the publication will be available at the launch ceremony. Musharraf Ali Farooqi was born in Hyderabad in 1968. He attended the NED University of Engineering and Technology and left without completing his degree. He worked as a journalist and editor in Karachi before moving to Canada in 1994.