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Pakistani, Indian artists should be bridge-builders for peace – Mehwish Hayat
With her dazzling star power, Pakistani actress Mehwish Hayat has waded into Pakistan-India standoff over Kashmir with the message that artists should build bridges and that Bollywood should stop portraying Pakistanis as stereotypes. The heartthrob of...August 22, 2019 1903 0 -
My Persian Paradox taught me how sharing stories helps create empathy, peace
The pain we carry from the past and don’t have time to think about will eventually come out and hit us. All this time, it has been sitting there waiting for an opportunity to talk and...August 19, 2019 1845 0 -
A poem on God’s mercy for father of a learned daughter
ON JUDGEMENT DAY I wrote this poem for my daughter a decade ago. She now faces a serious medical situation. I request the reader to heed a father’s plea and offer a prayer for her recovery...August 8, 2019 774 0 -
Muslim Writing Salon brings awesome diversity to D.C.
In the rooftop bar of Eaton DC, skeptical of attending a religious event, I didn’t know what to expect. When Nafisa Isa enthusiastically started introducing the program, people cheered and hollered. Sitting in the second row,...August 8, 2019 1557 0 -
The poem beginning with the clap of thunder
Votive Peregrination The clap of thunder and jagged silence riding high in a momentary calm of synthetic awe. To witness emotions drilled in Time and fossilized like the luminous eyes of the loved ones now gone...June 27, 2019 1047 0 -
‘The Dragonfly and Other Poems’ reflects on Mashal Khan, blinded Kashmiris and much more
There is something about the old Frontier Province which lifts the heart when crossing the Attock into the land of the Pukhtun; the poet awakens. That is what Sir Evelyn Howell, the outstanding Pukhtunphile, wrote; or...June 16, 2019 1373 0 -
What does playwright Enver Sajjad’s death in adversity tell about us?
Pakistani intellectual circles mourned the death of Dr. Enver Sajjad, an internationally known playwright and actor, who died in privation due to illness financial troubles and gross neglect on part of both the state and the...June 6, 2019 815 0 -
A poet’s anguish: ‘They are taking them away’
sullen shine the stars the moon in agony aloof so still stand the palm trees the seasons are bearing my dreams away sanity suspended while all the dark horrors of the mind uncoil slowly snakely settle...June 2, 2019 699 0 -
Pakistani-American filmmaker Mumtaz Hussain honored for his creative work
Pakistani-American filmmaker and Views and News contributor Mumtaz Hussain has been honored in recognition of his achievements in creative arts. Governor Punjab Chaudhry Sarwar during his visit to New York decorated Hussain with a medal on behalf...April 20, 2019 2006 0 -
A poet’s reflections on twilight days and Delhi nights
Leave us here in our women’s chambers leave us here so secure chewing the lotus with lotus maiden amidst the fumes of a suspended past that waft away an uncertain future space so marble-cooled illusions so...April 7, 2019 1107 0
