The writer is a librarian and lecturer in San Francisco. His most recent work is Cafe Le Whore and Other Stories. He blogs at moazzamsheikh.blogspot.com
A novel that dabbles with race relations but fails to look beyond whiteness
Fiction about the oppression of the Palestinian people is slowly but steadily gaining acceptance
No other art form is as problematic as cinema when it comes to claims of originality
A slim book of short stories that covers a vast territory
Sophia Naz’s story is a poignant effort at recasting the tragedy and horror inflicted on the Bengalis by the rulers of West Pakistan
The poems in Dooji Aurat show a range of emotions -- from melancholic to erotic, from profane to maternal to even morbid to suffocating
Roshni Rustomji-Kerns talks about the domestic and foreign literary landscapes of the US, Mexico, India, and Pakistan
Zahid Hassan’s modern diction and raw Punjabi prose are the strength of a novel that lacks clarity of an idea or purpose
Female agency and male desire -- a look back at Arman, a 1960s blockbuster movie
I can’t think of a single Pakistani film that left me as dazed, weeping inwardly, as Bin Roye. I have had time to ponder. My thoughts I lay bare
