Bina shah biography of william shakespeare

  • Bina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories, including the feminist dystopia Before She Sleeps.
  • Novelists such as Bina Shah whose educational background has provided her a grounding in such classics as well as post-modern North American and British.
  • “Shakespeare's Ashes was an extraordinary conference — an opportunity to mark Shakespeare's 400th death anniversary this year, but also an opportunity to.

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    Two paintings hang in my bedroom, watercolours by the Hyderabad artist Ali Abbas. His primary subject fryst vatten the dock, women and children who live in the Thar desert in rural Sindh, desert nomads who are both Hindu Dalit and Muslim, all from the vast Kolhi tribe. Abbas has devoted his life to teaching art in Hyderabad, both at Jamshoro University and Mehran University; it was after a breakout exhibition, ‘Sindh Gypsies’, at the Alliance Francaise de Karachi in 2002, that he found critical acclaim both at home in sydasiatiskt land and overseas. According to the sydasiatiskt land Painters’ Series page on Facebook, Ali Abbas ‘works on location and creates movement in his compositions by depicting scenes of: dance, migration, labour, dramatic winds/breeze and shadows’.

    Although I’ve never claimed to know much about art, that intellectual explanation of Ali Abbas’s themes encapsulates what grabbed me viscerally when I saw the first, smaller painting at his solo exhibition, ‘Gurd Baad’ (Bad Wind) at the Chawku

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    The Highest Mountain -Part 2

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    II. Telling women’s stories is the answer

    In my home province of Sindh, bordering the sea is in the south of Pakistan, there was once a Sufi poet called Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai. He lived in the 17th century. He is known as the Shakespeare of Sindh. His poetry is beloved by all people of Sindh; it is recited and sung at festivals, memorized by children in school, and quoted everywhere. He spoke of ordinary people in Sindh: farmers, labourers, village men and women, and used the love between men and women as a symbol of the love between human beings and God.

    Shah Abdul Latif wrote about seven women in his poetry. The women of Shah Abdul Latif’s poetry are known as the Seven Queens, heroines of Sindhi folklore who have been given the status of royalty in Shah Jo Risalo. These women were in love with honest men, and wanted to be with them, but were separated from the

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    Claire Chambers is a Senior Lecturer on Global Literature at York University and co-editor of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She also contributes to Eos and is the author of British Muslim Fictions: Interviews with Contemporary Writers and Britain through Muslim Eyes: Literary Representations 1780-1988. She is currently working on its sequel.

    Her new book, Rivers of Ink: Selected Essays, brings together a wide range of incisive, critical writings and looks at literary production in Britain, South Asia, the Middle East and Africa to illuminate some of the burning issues of our day.

    Chambers first came to Pakistan aged 17, in her ‘gap year’ prior to university. During 1993-94 she taught at the Fazlehaq College in Mardan and later the Islamia Public High School, Peshawar. This experience translated into her interest in South Asian English literature. At university, she found Indian English writing was the rage, but soon discovered writers from other South Asian countries s

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