Author Archive for Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Bridging Cultures Through Film: From the Melody Queen to the Muslim Madonna

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • March 24, 2013

Bridging Cultures Through Film: From the Melody Queen to the Muslim Madonna: A History of Pakistan Through its Female Singers 1947-Present This is a project about mediation in the sense of bringing cultures together; in this case by creating…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • June 10, 2011

In the context of what we now term “Pakistani” theatre and performance, in addition to gender, aesthetic and racial histories, conventions and traditions, we need also to acknowledge the religious, nationalist, ethnic and linguistic contestations which are key to understanding…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • May 7, 2011

It is grotesque to see media anchors like Hamid Mir in Pakistan refer to Bin Laden as “shaheed”—as though the man was a martyr in any Islamic sense. What a travesty of belief ! And that there were processions in…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • January 28, 2011

From (Viewpoint Online) Samaa TV program anchor Meher Bokhari, whose aggressive interview of Taseer a few weeks prior to his assassination has raised troubling questions about media responsibility. Did her insistence, that Governor Taseer had somehow engaged in defamation of…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • January 17, 2011

(From Counterpunch) My husband and I were strolling through the streets of the French Quarter of New Orleans on New Year’s eve, with crowds of young and old, men, women and everyone in between, including some spectacular drag queens thronging…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • December 13, 2010

As a Pakistani-American who has lived, studied and worked in the US for 30 years and raised a family with a man who, like me, came here from Pakistan as a student, the case of Faisal Shahzad has raised more…

by Fawzia Afzal-Khan • December 9, 2010

(Syndicated from Viewpoint Online) Imagine my shock and dismay when a woman claiming that my chapter on Madina was based on her—did a most unimaginable thing. She sent a letter of “intent to sue” to my publishers and myself, claiming…