Posts Tagged ‘ personal essay ’

Beards and Belonging in Lahore

Aug 2015

اردو | You are well educated, you are a teacher, then why this beard and hair? Issue 9
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In Memoriam: Peshawar & How Things Come Full Circle

Feb 2015

On the two month anniversary of the attack on an army school in Peshawar, Mahru Najam recalls her own experience of attacks that have become too common -- and that cost her a friend's life.
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Not Talking About Pakistan

Feb 2013

Questions about Pakistan are now a fact of living here, no different from damp weather or calls from salespeople. Some I deflect, and others I frame around my own terms. I drew a secret line around the borders of Pakistan and rarely stepped over it.
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