Current issue
One Lasting Desire Despite It All by Fatima Jafar

Chowk
Peeling Summer Bruises by Hira Mehar

Avaaz
Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds by Hammad Rind

Current issue
‘Death & Flowers’: Ali Baluch on Recording the Demise of the Malir River by Omair Danish

Chowk
Maybe next Sunday, I’ll write a longer haibun by Hamza Ahmad Khan

Chowk
Love Love by Sobhia Kamal

Current issue
After a deadly aerial engagement, a cup of tea by Shadab Zeest Hashmi

Fiction | مسز کینیڈی اور شتربان by Hammad Rind, translated by the author

Books | Self Discovery by Tamreez Inam

Poetry |Intercity Ghosts by Ibrahim Tanweer

ٖPoetry | 1974, Ali vs Foreman by Jaweerya Mohammad

Fiction | فیصلہ by Syed Hur Abbas

Interview | Opposing Forces: Lariab Ahmad on What Drives Her As An Artist by A Arain

Cover of Issue Eight, by Iman Ahmed. It shows a floral pattern on a carpet.

Included in this issue

We Learned Hunger in English by Mahin Wahla ||
A conversation between a woman and the last wild witness by Zainab Jokhio ||
مونگ پھلی by سید قمر عباس اعرجی ||
Five Hundred Words a Day: Creativity in the Time of Monsters by Sakina Hassan ||
Tending to the Indoor Garden (detail 3) by Iman Ahmed ||
The Woman Who Wants Everything: An Interview with Dur e Aziz Amna by Anum Asi

Avaaz . آواز
by Hammad Rind

Island Tongues: The Coexisting Literary Languages of Sri Lanka
جزیرے کی زبانیں: سری لنکا کی ادبی آوازیں

Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds
قمبری/ویلش: ایک زبان سو رکاوٹیں

Chowk . چوک
2026: Transformations
۲۰۲۶: تبدیلیاں

Poetry, October 2026
Peeling Summer Bruises by Hira Mehar

Poetry, September 2026
a lesson in my language
by Zainab Haroon

Art, August 2026
Inquiry: From Mapping Light to Memory
by Asavir Nadeem

Art, August 2026
CyberLahore
by Hazem Asif

Essay, July 2026
Don’t Light Up the Dark
by Khadeeja Bilqees

artwork by Maliha Hasan

Maliha Hasan and Aima Tariq speak with editors Bareerah Ghani and Sidra Hassan
Watch the conversation here

Poetic Renditions

Urdu to English

غزل ۔ ناصر کاظمی
Mumtaz Mohiuddin, Kate Roy, Abdul Sabur Kidwai, Fuzaila Khan, Farhan Farooq Wani, Parul Behl, Amna Ali Khan, Ali Arif, Siddiqua Fatima Virji, and Shah Faisal Mushtaq.
Guest edited by Naima Rashid.

Gujarati to English

મળે ન મળે – આદિલ મન્સૂરી 
Male Na Male – Adil Mansuri
Rohee Dholakia and Meena Desai. Edited by Saniyah Salman.

Punjabi to English

ٹبہ ٹویا اک برابر ۔ تجمل کلیم
Jasdeep Singh and Ayesha Waheed. Edited by Mahin Zia.

Urdu to English

لاہور کی ایک سنیک بار کے نام ۔ سرمد صہبائی
Bilal Tanweer, Sarmad Sehbai, and Sherdil Awais Rashid. Guest edited by Bilal Tanweer.

 

English to Urdu

Making a Fist – Naomi Shihab Nye
Sukhan, Iqra Khan, Taran Khan, and Asad Hussain. Edited by Iraj Toosy.

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