Interviews
Opposing Forces: Lariab Ahmad on What Drives Her as an Artist
by A Arain
Issue Five – Summer 2025
“I dream, therefore I breathe. We have nonfiction, because we have fiction. We invent because we have not made it a waking reality yet. Sometimes I do get carried away. One of the joys of being an artist is the ability to make your own story, staying within the physical laws of nature but also surpassing them, a little bit at a time. “
Attention & Prayer: Sarah Elahi on Writing
by Anum Asi
Issue Five – Summer 2025
“I’ve been writing as long as I can remember. I actually have a clear memory of trying to copy my mother’s cursive on a piece of paper when I was three years old, showing it to my grandfather and telling him it’s “a story about witches”. But truth be told, I’ve always identified more as a reader than a writer.”
Archiving the Familiar and Familial: a conversation with Irum Rahat
by Maliha Hasan
Issue Five – Summer 2025
“There is so much about family, women’s lives, and domesticity that it becomes important to tell all those stories too. I think for me, painting these moments is a lot like practicing quiet resistance.”
The Body as a Historical Site: a conversation with Naima Rashid
by Farah Ali
Issue Five – Summer 2025
“The book was an act of personal reckoning. Quite literally, a gathering of selves. Central to this was the need to make sense of, to embrace selves (perceived as) splintered through the filters of language, geography, and roles. For most of my life, I have lived in one country but called another language home. Questions of identity and belonging have always haunted me, overtly and internally.”
Between Places: a conversation with Sayera Anwar
by Rabia Malik
Issue Four – Spring 2025
Geographies: a conversation with Feryal Ali-Gauhar
by Farah Ali
Issue Four – Spring 2025
داستان گوئی: a conversation with Hammad Rind
by Bareerah Y. Ghani
Issue Two – Spring 2024