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SCHOLARLY

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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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Re-Orienting Orientalism

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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After COVID-19, What?​

The Drama Review 

The MIT Press

Volume 64, Number 3

Pages 191 – 224

Fall 2020

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In Memoriam: Nawal el Saadawi

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies

Duke University Press

March 2022

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The Fundamentalist Nexus of Neoliberalism, Rentier Capitalism, Religious and Secular Patriarchies, and South Asian Feminist Resistances​

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

 

Whistling Mummy

3 Quarks Daily

March 2018

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Mai 

Sugar Mule

2013

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The American 

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

Eyewitness in the (un)Holy Land

CounterPunch

June 2019

Be. Very. Careful. Who. You. Invite. In.

CounterPunch

February 2023

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

Night of the Cubana

Asiatic (8.1)

2014 

PDF available here

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Madame Sin

Mehraab

Volume 2, Issue 10

2002

Read here

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Bloody Monday

And the World Changed: Contemporary Writings by Pakistani Women

An Oxford University Press Anthology 

Edited by Muneeza Shamsie

2005

 

Sam's Secret

Himal Magazine

2000 

2022 © Fawzia Afzal-Khan

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