INCLUDED IN THIS ISSUE
مروان by Ghassan Kanafani,
tr. by Hammad Rind | Fiction
سڑک پر by Samira Azzam, tr. by Amama Bashir | Fiction
Lebanon by Farah-Silvana Kanaan| Essay
میری خاموشی کو آواز دینے والی نظم by Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, tr. by Zafar Malik, Faisal Mohyuddin | Essay
نسل کشی میں درخت by Omar Sakr,
tr. by Annie Shahid | Poetry
جنوبی سانِٹ by Zeina Hashem Beck, tr. by Leela | Poetry
مردہ بال دے نکے پیر by Hind Jouda,
tr. by Anonymous | Poetry
A Letter From Maisara Baroud
by Maisara Baroud | Essay
سَکن resting place is س ک ن
by Adeela Khan | Cover Art
From the archives
Fiction | Horrors Under the Eclipse by Harris Gondal
Essay | The Money Plant by Tabinda Khurshid
Essay | After Winter by Samee Ahmad
Interview | داستان گوئی : A Conversation with Hammad Rind by Bareerah Ghani
Translations of a poem into a different language by various writers
Urdu to English
لاہور کی ایک سنیک بار کے نام ۔ سرمد صہبائی
notes and translations by ٖBilal Tanweer, Sarmad Sehbai, and Sherdil Awais Rashid
Shandana Minhas speaks to writers, artists, absurdists. listen to episodes here.
28 February 2025
with SABAHAT ZAKARIYA
Sabahat Zakariya is a writer, cultural critic and creator of iconoclastic videos. Her celebrated multimedia platform, Feminustani, has carved a new genre in the South Asian cultural space by excavating Pakistani popular culture for feminist and social critique. Some of the things she talks about in this episode are identity, creativity, saris, and Pakistani English language writing.
Lakeer Magazine is now open for submissions
from June 1 until August 31
Guidelines can be found here
Submissions for Chowk, ‘Borders/Boundaries – سرحدیں/حُدود’, are open all year