Muneeza Shamsie

Nov 16, 2024 | dawn.com | Muneeza Shamsie |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana |Shahzad Sharjeel

Shattered: A MemoirBy Hanif KureishiHamish HamiltonISBN: ISBN: 978-0241667958336pp. Hanif Kureishi’s new work, Shattered: A Memoir is a collection of ‘dispatches’, essentially a diary, originally dictated by Kureishi while hospitalised in Rome and later London, following the accident which left him paralysed. Kureishi’s words, taken down by his partner, Isabella d’Amico, or his sons, Sachin, Keir and Carlo, “as events happened” were posted online as The Kureishi Chronicles.

Nov 16, 2024 | dawn.com | Muneeza Shamsie |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana |Shahzad Sharjeel

Hanif Kureishi You have been back in your London home for several months now, after a year in different hospitals, following your collapse, broken neck and paralysis. How much movement do you have now? And how do you manage with daily life? Hanif Kureishi: My movement remains limited, but I’m gradually regaining some control. Daily life is a series of adaptations and negotiations with my new reality. I rely heavily on assistance for basic tasks, which is both humbling and frustrating.

Nov 11, 2023 | dawn.com | Muneeza Shamsie |Azhar Khan |Zofeen Ebrahim |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob

More Transgressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz By Anjum Altaf LG Publishers (Delhi) ISBN: 938372393960pp. The timeless quality of Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poetry and its multi-layered resonances across cultures, have been a source of inspiration to many, including the distinguished academic Anjum Altaf, who transmuted and adapted Faiz’s poems into a 2018 collection, Trangressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz.

Nov 11, 2023 | asianage.com | Muneeza Shamsie

I grew up in post-Partition Karachi, in a family where cooking was considered an art. My father, Isha’at Habibullah (1911–1991), a company executive at Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC), was a gastronome. Cooking was his great hobby and he loved to prepare meals for friends. The range of his cooking is encapsulated by his famous brunches.

Nov 4, 2023 | thenews.com.pk | Muneeza Shamsie

n recent times, there has been a growing interest in the literary production of Muslim women writers across the centuries, which has challenged the marginalisation of Muslim women’s writings in colonial and Orientalist narratives.