Nyla Daud

Aug 4, 2024 | dawn.com | Nyla Daud |Abbas Nasir |Muhammad Amir Rana |Muna Khan

Allama Iqbal’s Message from the East (Payaam-i-Mashriq)Translated from Persian to English by M. Hadi HussainIllustrated by Shireen Gheba NajibShireen Gheba’s StudioISBN: 978-969-23158-1-4247pp. Given the abundance of literature, venerative, appreciative, contemplative and meditative that Allama Iqbal’s work — with special reference to his Payaam-i-Mashriq [Message of the East] — has inspired, why would there be a reason to go for one more publication of the same?

Apr 6, 2024 | dawn.com | Nyla Daud |Ali Khayam

Writer-in-residence Kanza Javed (middle row, second from right) with the participants of the women writers' retreat in Abbottabad | Photo by Romessa Farrrukh Eight women… strangers all.

Mar 2, 2024 | dawn.com | Nyla Daud |Navaira Ali Bangash

The crowds were adrenalin-infused, but then that is the norm at any Lahore festival. The premises overflowed, but then Lahore is a city where life is actually lived. The food court was a hornet’s nest with sweetened and spiced aromas, but then Lahoris live to eat. The Alhambra sprouted a rainbow of sounds and sights, but then spring was also in the air.

Dec 23, 2023 | dawn.com | Nyla Daud

Once a month on Saturday mornings, a loader rickshaw — its flanks masked by psychedelic posters and fun messages — parks itself along the railing of the small park in Sector U of Lahore’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA). Arriving precisely at 10 in the morning, the driver and a staff member of the Alif Laila Book Bus’ (ALBB) Rickshaw Library jump down to raise the shutters, displaying built-in shelves full of a kaleidoscopic collection of books, games and stationery.

Dec 23, 2023 | dawn.com | Nyla Daud |Malik Asad |Abbas Nasir |Ahmed Bilal Mehboob

Ziarat: Ecotourists’s ParadiseBy Salman RashidSang-e-Meel PublicationsISBN: 978-9693534313120pp. Tourist traffic in Pakistan has routinely headed north. The southerners here, while fighting the summer heat and humidity, still find respite in the now-overcrowded, trash-littered, ill-planned mountain hideouts that the locals there have cashed in upon with random construction, using precious wood from their forest trees.