How A Pakistani Professor At Rutgers Faces Attempts To Drive Her Out
Letter_Rutgers Academics from a wide variety of backgrounds, in a letter addressed to the Chancellor at Rutgers University (Newark, NJ)...
Saturday, May 28, 2022
Literature
Reading Hajdi Murat During The War In Ukraine: Tolstoy And Reliving History
Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much...
In Memory Of Sara Suleri Goodyear
Sara Suleri Goodyear, nee Sara Suleri, one of four daughters born to Pakistan Times editor and journalist Z. A. Suleri,...
Second Edition Of Ananke ‘Women In Literature’ Festival To Celebrate Literati From The Global South
The second edition of Ananke’s Women in Literature Festival will be held digitally on the 31st of March and the...
Maniza Naqvi’s Vision: The Little Book Company
A few months ago, I came across a publishing house that had just released Ephemera by Peerzada Salman as an...
How Peerzada Salman’s Collection Of Short Stories In ‘Ephemera’ Mirrors His Own Experiences
For those of us who live in Karachi, we are definitely acquainted with and have spotted Peerzada Salman at a...
State Of Terror: Hillary Clinton’s Gripping International Thriller
Terrorists armed with nuclear weapons are the bad actors in this novel. The dramatisation is so compelling that the novel...
Literary Master Of St. Petersburg: Feodor Dostoevsky At 200
The details of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s literary activities would merit an entire book. For fear of length, an extremely brief discussion...
Alia Ahmed Wins Zeenat Haroon Rashid Prize 2021 With A Short Story About The Callousness Of Privilege
The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women has announced that the award for 2021 goes to writer Alia Ahmed...
The Two Hameeds Of Lahore
It was great to read a few days ago that the Lahore Arts Council is planning to celebrate the 2019...
Poet Of The Desert: Khwaja Ghulam Farid
Punjab has a rich literary tradition in Sufi poetry. The Punjabi language has a uniquely candid way to express the...
Foreign Influence And The Shaping Of An Individual’s Identity – The View From Arabic Literature
Whether in the form of colonialism or interaction with an individual from a contrasting cultural background, foreign influence undeniably leaves...
The Seer Of China: Reading Lu Xun In Urdu, In The Centenary Year Of The CPC
Widely considered to be the father of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun – born 140 years ago today – was...
Through The Lens Of The Victim: How Sinan Antoon Depicts Iraq’s Years Of Annihilation
In today’s fast-paced world where everyone seems to be more intertwined than ever, and where news spreads like fire, making...
Chandni Begum: A Resonant Portrait of Muslim North India
In 1947, as the British left the Indian Subcontinent, having divided it into two countries, many Indians and Pakistanis couldn’t...
Juggler of Amritsar: Zaheer Kashmiri (1919-1994)
Hamen khabar hai ke hum hain charagh-e-akhir-e-shab Hamare baad andhera nahi ujala hai (We know that we are the lamp...
Two Sides of a Coin: Western Philosophy and Arab Literature
It has been discerned for centuries that the bond between philosophy and literature is unshakable and unflagging. Each subject matter...
Hamnet and the State of Being
It is standard fare to read Shakespeare at high school or so I thought – but these days high school...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos – IV
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos – III
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos – II
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...
The Life and Times of Baba Bagloos
RAZA NAEEM TRANSLATES THE STORY THAT MUSTANSAR HUSSAIN TARAR WROTE AS A METAPHOR FOR THE ZIA ERA, PRISON BRUTALITY AND...
On Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows
By Momina Aijazuddin
Farce for Old Pakistan, Prophecy for the Naya – III
Raza Naeem on Muhammad Khalid Akhtar’s novel ‘2011’ – at 70
Farce for Old Pakistan, Prophecy for the Naya – II
Raza Naeem on Muhammad Khalid Akhtar’s novel ‘2011’ – at 70
Farce for Old Pakistan, Prophecy for the Naya
Raza Naeem on Mohammad Khalid Akhtar’s novel ‘2011’ – at 70
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Shireen Mazari Shares 2021 Video Of Shelling At Protest Claiming It To Be From PTI’s Long March
In a now deleted tweet, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)...
Thin Crowd At Long March: Imran Angry At PTI Leaders
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairperson Imran Khan is reportedly...