Zafar Malik
Zafar Malik is Director of Publications and Dean for Development and University Relations at East-West University in Chicago, the Managing Editor of East-West University’s Center for Policy and Future Studies journal, East-West Affairs, and an accomplished visual artist. He lives in Chicago and maintains his artist studio at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center in Evanston, Illinois. His translations have appeared in RHINO, Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing, and elsewhere.
Poetry (translation)
کچھ دنوں کی شروعات ایسے
میرے دانتوں، زباں اور مسوڑوں پر
میں کہنا چاہتی ہوں رکو
کہ میں ٹھیک ہوں
We began our translation work with Tara Skurtu’s poem “Some Days Begin Like This” on a Sunday afternoon in late March 2024, in the middle of Ramadan.