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"What is important to note for our purposes here, in tracing the debate in post-Partition Pakistan about the '[im]proper' place of the musical arts and within those, of women performers such as Malka Pukhraj and others, is that there is a delicious irony in the fact that the derogration of the "tawaif" - synecdoche for a whole way of life (Muslim Mughal culture), as embodied in the singing and dancing arts, which in turn were embedded in North India's Muslim-led classical traditions - actually began in the Hindu national imaginary emerging in the decades leading up to Independence of India from the British and the resulting Partition. Why? Because the "tawaif" had become a symbol of Muslim glory in the Hindu psyche, given its Mughal roots. What irony, then, that this self-defeating position, originating as part of the Hindu national project, was adopted post 1947, by the Muslim state of Pakistan!"
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– From The Respectable Courtesan
Doing History Right: Challenging Masculinist Postcolonialism in Pakistani Anglophone Literature
Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Literature
Editors: Kanwal, Aroosa and Saiyma Aslam
Pages 185 – 200
2019
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The Respectable Courtesan: Malka Pukhraj, Music and the Postcolonial Nation
Performing Islam
Volume 6,  Number 1
Pages 41– 59(19)
May 2017
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Peer Reviewed e-Journal, Arab Stages
December 2014
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Alternative Dramaturgy for "Jihad Against Violence: Oh Isis Up Yours!”
Co-authored by Fawzia Afzal-Khan, Nesrin Alrefaai and Katherine Mezur
Published simultaneously in Arab Stages
Volume 1, Number 2
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The Drama Review
The MIT Press
Volume 64, Number 3
Pages 191 – 224
Fall 2020
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies
Duke University Press
March 2022
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Journal of International Women's Studies
Volume 24, Issue 2
Article 16
Summer 2022
Co-Editor of South Asian Feminisms and Youth Activism: Focus on India and Pakistan
Journal of International Women's Studies
Special Issue
Volume 24, Issue 2
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Other Writing
POETRY
3 Quarks Daily
March 2018
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Sugar Mule
2013
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South Asian Review
Creative Writing Issue
Editors: Amritjit Singh and John Hawley
2006
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Seminar on Women and Development, Lahore
Women's Studies Quarterly
2003
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Billy Bush Sam-Ton
Poets Against the War Anthology
Editor: Sam Hamill
Published by Thunder Mouth Press, New York
2003
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"Noise in the shape
Of words whistling
Contorted into
Breath that smells
Of death approaching
Slowly sour
Patching memories
Only she can enter
Darkly
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– From Whistling Mummy
AUTHORED REVIEWS
Afghanistan Redux: Malala Yousafzai, White Feminism and Saving Afghan Women
CounterPunch
August 2021
JOURNALISTIC​
SHORT STORIES
Reading of an excerpt from La Vie En Rouge: Of Dreamscapes and Destinies, published in The Aleph Review's inaugural issue, 2017