Rabia Ahmed

Jun 24, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Talal Faisal Ismaili |Farida Gul |Ishtiaq Ahmed |Rabia Ahmed

We all know what it feels like to be out in the open air. Yet once we try to pin it down within established categories and conventions of thought, no experience could be more elusive. What is the open air? Does it circulate in the sky or the atmosphere? Are these the same or different? If the atmosphere surrounds our planet, and the sky arches above our heads, then in what shape or form can the earth exist in relation to the sky?

Jun 24, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Ishtiaq Ahmed |Rabia Ahmed |Mohammed Anas |Syed Hassan Haadi

Aamir Butt is a medical doctor based in the UK, but he visits Lahore at least once every year. He was born in Lahore but grew up in Rawalpindi. A great connoisseur of poetry, he has now published a labour of love devoted to Lahore. The book is written in short writeups, some less than two pages. The ambition is to capture as multifaceted charms of Lahore in both historical and contemporary terms as possible. The author acquits himself with flying colours.

May 18, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Fawzia Afzal-Khan |Rabia Ahmed |Mohammed Anas |Syed Hassan Haadi

Tahira Naqvi needs no introduction. An erudite, renaissance woman, deeply immersed in all aspects of what one might nostalgically call ‘Subcontinental’ literary culture, she is best known as the translator of Ismat Chughtai’s work, a labour of love she has been engaged in for the past many decades.

May 5, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Syed Hassan Haadi |Talal Faisal Ismaili |Rabia Ahmed |Mohammed Anas

In the early days of April this year, an exhibition titled “Elegance of Script” was organized by the Lahore Museum, in which the calligraphic works in Nastaliq, Thuluth, Naskh and other Arabic and Persian scripts by different master calligraphers from Pakistan and pre-partition India were exhibited.

Apr 29, 2024 | thefridaytimes.com | Rabia Ahmed |Patryk Tadeusz |Beelam Ramzan |Huzaima Bukhari

Don’t cry child, Your mommy has only just cried herself to sleep (Faiz Ahmad Faiz) A session of the Gaza Monologues was held at the Alif Laila Library in Gulberg on Friday. The monologues are an initiative of Ajoka Theatre, consisting of readings of prose and poetry translated from Arabic, in the poignant words of the children of Gaza, speaking of a war that destroyed the region on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, bordered by Egypt and Israel.