Ali Khayam

Sep 25, 2024 | thenews.com.pk | Sana Mahmud |Ali Khayam

Arshad Nadeem’s historic Javelin throw stayed in the air for a few seconds, but it carried the hopes and aspirations of 240 million people. He has given Pakistan a victory of the century by winning the country’s first-ever individual Olympic Gold Medal. But most importantly, he has given us a legendary Olympic story to tell the next generation of Pakistani children.

Jun 10, 2024 | dawn.com | Ali Khayam

IN March this year, the UN General Assembly declared that the International Day of Play would be observed annually on June 11. This announcement has come after a long advocacy campaign led by Unicef, global civil society, and organisations such as Right To Play. So, today the world is celebrating its inaugural Day of Play with the object of encouraging more conscious efforts to ensure that children across the world can exercise their right to play.

Apr 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Nadya Chishty-Mujahid |Mahira Sarfraz |Asfa Sultan |Ali Khayam

Mightier: A Selection from the Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women 2019-2023Edited by Syra Rashid VahidyReverie PublishersISBN: 978-627-7742-0-4-1265pp. For the past nearly half-a-dozen years, Syra Vahidy, the enterprising daughter of the late, respected Zeenat Haroon Rashid has been administering a prize in her mother’s name, in order to honour English-language fiction and non-fiction penned by upcoming Pakistani women writers.

Apr 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Harris Khalique |Mahira Sarfraz |Asfa Sultan |Ali Khayam

The British actor, director, playwright and critic Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) writes in one of his famous prefaces to Shakespeare’s work: “The artist transforms and multiplies experience by imagination, and may even come to think that what is true of his art will be true for the world it mirrors.”Art mirrors the world and Shakespeare turns himself into a polished mirror to reflect what is inside a human soul and what exists outside.

Apr 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Abbas Nasir |Ali Khayam

THE famous six — no less heroic than Enid Blyton’s Famous Five — write a letter which grabs newspaper headlines and becomes the subject of endless hours on ‘TV talk shows’. When the Supreme Court takes up the letter, even more news is generated. And then the superior court judges start receiving letters with ‘toxic’ powder in them and yet another topic of discussion is born.