Dear Allah

could you tell mrs. schmidt to please draw the blinds?...and don’t tell me not to look...you created me, i am

Poetry

Salaam O Rachel* Salaam

you are face of US we salute

Satire

Zwingli’s Zurich

Looking eastward between the cobbled lanes across the Limmat river up into the mountains, I found my self gazing at

Siachen Theatre

“They died on the ice-capped peaks of Siachin, 22,000 ft. above ground!

Sex and Censorship in the Cinema

There is a growing trend in cinema, especially so-called Independent and World Cinema, to show real sex on screen. This

Buddha of Rumtek

Black sun, briefly breached

Khamosh Pani Breaks a Long Silence

“Khamosh Pani” (Silent Waters) is a unique Punjabi movie that is slowly making ripples in the cinematic world.

Poetry

Mullah Pat Robertson’s Fatwa

Bulleh Shah, save me from the Mullah
Mullah’s selling religion for green Moolah
Government loots my paycheck and calls it taxes
Mullah steals

Dear Aliya!

Dear Aliya

Short Story

Laddo Ki Shadi

She would bluntly reply to the question, “ Will you keep me instead of my sister?” This was obscene when

Shahla Haeri: Changing Perceptions

Although thousands of educated and working women have played significant roles in Muslim societies, most literature on Muslim

Translation

Nasreen

Translated from Urdu, a story by Shafiq-ur-Rehman

Short Story

The Infidel

Translated from Urdu, Ismat Chughtai’s short story ‘Kafir’

Poetry

Bloated Woman

Bounce around ultrasound baby.

Bhatti’s “Behzti (Dishonor)” hurts Sikh Sensitivities

But then the play wouldn’t have created a (publicity) storm; it would probably not have attracted much attention. One of

Ahmed Rushdi

The journey which Rushdi had started from Mehdi Zaheer’s ’Bunder Road’ in 1954 had ended at Azar Hafiz’s