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Muneeza Shamsie is a literary critic, journalist, bibliographer and award-winning anthologist. She has guest edited the Special Pakistan Issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing (May 2011) and served as Regional Chair (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers Prize in 2010 and 2011.

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[29 Jul 2011 | One Comment | Muneeza Shamsie]
Book Review: Modern Poetry of Pakistan

Modern Poetry of Pakistan provides an anglophone audience with a comprehensive introduction to the rich tradition of Pakistani poetry.

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[1 Jul 2009 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
A Passion for Words

The passing of well-loved poet and journalist, Kaleem Omar has left a void in the field of Pakistan’s English language poetry.

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[4 Feb 2009 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Memories of Another Day

An exhibition of 1,200 autochromes of India, taken by two French photographers at France’s Albert Kahn Museum, captures vividly the many characters and colours of a bygone era.

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[3 Mar 2008 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Straddling Two Worlds

The author of Meatless Days and Boys Will Be Boys, Sara Suleri embarks on another venture: translating Ghalib’s verse into English.

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[1 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Interview: Sarfraz Manzoor

“The terror attacks pushed my Muslim identity to the foreground,” says author Sarfraz Manzoor.

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[1 Dec 2007 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Of Fathers and Sons

A Pakistani British writer comes to terms with his alienation from his roots, finding solace in the redemptive music of Bruce Springsteen.

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[4 Oct 2007 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
New Voices

Muneeza Shamsie discovers a number of promising new voices in Pakistani English literature.

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[5 May 2007 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Women’s Voices

Women writers get together to discuss how the web of censorship affects women’s voices.

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[2 Dec 2006 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Requiem for Mughal Delhi

Dalrymple’s intense fascination with Delhi’s Mughal past reverberates throughout his meticulously researched book about India’s last Mughal emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar.men and children.

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[3 Sep 2006 | Comments Off | Muneeza Shamsie]
Paradise Lost

Moni Mohsin writes of a changing world and the havoc it wreaks.