Posts Tagged ‘ karachi ’

Making Karachi

Making Karachi

If displacement is a strategy targeting de facto non-citizens, then upper-middle class urban Muslims emerge as the true citizens of Pakistan.
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Karachi on Canvas | Art Review

اردو | Artist Madiha Hyder captures how the news has penetrated our lives, shaping a perception of the spaces we inhabit and our sense of self. Issue 9
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The Last Conversation | VOICES

By TQ
Apr 2015

Read the final conversation on Balochistan at T2F the night of Sabeen Mahmud's murder.
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Sabeen Mahmud: Our Postmodern Flower Child

Apr 2015

On April 24, 2015 activist and self-described postmodern flower child, unabashed Mac snob, Pink Floyd and Bruce Springsteen devotee, and Tetris addict, Sabeen Mahmud, was gunned down after holding a public event on Balochistan in her cafe, The Second Floor in Karachi. In this video, we remember her spirit and fierce courage. Remembering Sabeen  Un-silencing...
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Remembering Perween Rahman (1957-2013) | Invisible Cities

Remembering Perween Rahman (1957-2013) | Invisible Cities

Invisible Cities | Blog | We remember Perween Rahman on her second death anniversary through the words of her mentor and teacher, Arif Hasan.
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Twenty-Three Million Stories

Mar 2014

اردو | Bilal Tanweer has written a book of unusual beauty. TQ sits down with Tanweer to discuss his debut novel.
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God’s Gravediggers: The Politics of Sectarian Killing

Aug 2013

اردو | In a Hazara school, it was possible to divide the students' preoccupations into 4 categories: navigating relationships with parents, career choices, prospects for university and the risk of being shot by a death squad.
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