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Creating Magic For The Audience - An Interview with Afia Serena Nathaniel

Any change begins with a simple idea, Afia believes. ‘Those who can present ideas are in a unique position to effect change in their societies, ‘she says.

Pakistan's Moment of Democracy?

Even as many conceded that ‘Musharraf is not going anywhere’, a response of Pakistanis around the world who seemed beset with an intangible urge to 'do something'.

Asian University for Women

A small office on Wall Street has big plans for the women of Asia. It envisions women as leaders in Asia and is determined to reshape the values, social structures and mores that inhibit the actualization of women’s potential, specifically women fro

Bharati Mukherjee : The American Dreamer

‘The experience of cutting myself off from a biological homeland and settling in an adopted homeland that is not always welcoming to its dark-complexioned citizens has tested me as a person but it has made me the writer I am today.’

Culture Wars

Good Muslim, Bad Muslim is Mamdani’s most recent work. Inspired largely by the post Sept 11 scenario in the US, this book is one of the few important counter-narratives to the contemporary Western political analysis of Islam.

Maniza Naqvi: Writing for a Cause

'Look at what the US journalists did to Pakistan over the last three years, portraying the people as though there is something genetically and religiously wrong with us,' she says.

Recent Accounts of US Perfidy in Iraq

While President Bush may believe that he is carrying out ‘a mission that has been sanctioned by the divine’, as he recently indicated in a White House press conference, there is significant evidence from noteworthy sources which reveals otherw

A Pakistani Woman’s Voice

'I have decided to dedicate my writing to women,' says Tahira Naqvi very determinedly. Ms Naqvi is an acclaimed fiction writer, translator and professor who considers herself to be a ’feminist’ although she finds the word itself to be quite li

Mapping Karachi’s Charms and Contradictions

Kamila Shamsie spoke about ‘spider-plants’, the literary scene in Pakistan, an absence of ‘stone throwing fundamentalists’ in her work and inevitably about Karachi.

The new face of US Warfare

A few weeks ago when a US District Court sided with a relatively unknown satirist Al Franken and admonished the right-wing Fox News empire calling its arguments ‘extremely dubious’, it ‘officially’ broke a taboo of silence against

Unsettling Precedents for Pakistan

From the ‘success’ in Iraq, it appears that launching preemptive strikes with overpowering force can vanquish enemies without appreciable collateral damage.

Zeynab Ali

• Articles on Chowk: 11
• First article: Sep 10, 2003
• Latest article: May 21, 2008
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