Trunk Call with Shandana Minhas
January 4, 2025
with Dr Ammara Maqsood
Dr Ammara Maqsood is a social anthropologist whose research interests include the negotiation of difference in everyday life, as well as language and piety. She is the author of the book The New Pakistani Middle Class, and her most recent papers include ‘The Work of Time: Personhood, Agency and Negotiation of Religious Difference in Pakistan‘ and ‘Love in Liminality: The Modes and Spaces of Intimacy Middle-Class Pakistan‘.
October 11, 2024
with Swineryy
Swineryy is a pseudonymous Karachi-based artist whose piercing and eviscerating digital storytelling has earned her legions of fans across the world. Characters she ventriloquises include Blue Molvi saab, Alien, Fuckboi, Lina Aunty and Smolvi. Her most recent work includes the music video ‘Dum Ka Qeema’. Some of the things she touches on in this episode of Trunk Call are process, Pakistan, politics, and what makes a funny.
April 29, 2024
with Mo Naqvi
Mohammed Ali (Mo) Naqvi is an award winning producer and director. His films include ‘Shame’, ‘Among the Believers’, ‘Insha’Allah Democracy’, and ‘The Accused: Damned or Devoted?’ He is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Television Academy, and produced two seasons of the Netflix Original Top 10 docu-series ‘Turning Point’. He has produced work for Showtime, HBO, MTV, CNN, Discovery, Starz, BBC, and Hulu. His films have been screened at a number of festivals including Toronto, Berlin, Busan, and Tribeca, and showcased at the Museum of Modern Art.
March 25, 2024
with Farah Ali
Farah Ali is the writer of the novel The River, The Town, and the short story collection People Want to Live. Her work has been anthologised in Best Small Fictions and the Pushcart Prize where it has also received special mention. Her stories have appeared in Shenandoah, Kenyon Review, Ecotone, and elsewhere. Farah Ali is also co-founder, Fiction Editor and publisher of Lakeer.