On 23rd May, 2015, the Awami Art Collective launched a public art display at Bagh-e-Jinnah in Lahore to commemorate those civilians who have lost their lives in rampant communal violence and terrorism in Pakistan in the past thirty years.
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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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اردو | Khamosh Pani and Ramchand Pakistani are the first films by a generation that did not directly experience Partition. They plumb memory and examine living with what comes after.
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اردو| Just sitting through a film creates its own social norms and that—more than the films that cinemas screen — may be what worries those who burn them down.
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Featured artist Tazeen Qayyum speaks about the use of cockroaches, and other metaphors, in her work.
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اردو | Artist Imran Qureshi brought violence to the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art–and its contradiction into the lives of the everyday New Yorker.
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How would the story be different if Jiya wore a burka as a form of piety or as part of her usual dress code? Who would Jiya represent then?
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