Zehra Khan
Zehra Khan is an artist and writer based in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, majoring in drawing and printmaking. Her artistic interests lie in colonial and postcolonial studies, South Asian history, and migration studies. Zehra attended the 2022 LUMS Young Writers’ Workshop. In 2023 she was a South Asia Speaks Fiction Fellow and a Write Beyond Borders Fiction Fellow. Her visual work can be found on Instagram and her writing at WordPress. Her contact details are here.
Poetry (translation)
Cruelty, it may be, or the promise of intimacy,
I desire something that demands my patience
This ghazal talks about the condition of the poet instead of the beauty of his beloved so it was important for me to retain the ‘I’ in each sentence it was originally present in and to begin with the ‘I’ for each sentence that I could.