Picture Credit: Rina Gill (Boundless Publishing Group)
Picture Credit: Rina Gill (Boundless Publishing Group)
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BBC WORLD Weekend (May, 2025)
Brief talk with author Faiqa Mansab and Paul Henley about literary translation.
Ananke Festival of Literature | Urdu Literature Today (April, 2025)
Part of a panel on Urdu literature today with leading Urdu novelist Rahman Abbas, led by Hammad Rind. What does it mean to be writing in Urdu today and what are the challenges in bringing that literature to a global marketplace?
Ananke Festival of Literature | Women in Poetry (April, 2025)
Part of a panel on Muslim South Asian women in poetry. Readings and talk with poets Sascha Akhtar, Rakhshan Rizwan, Muniba Ahmed, led by Qudsia Akhtar.
AnankeWLF2024 | ‘All Roads Lead to Poetry (April, 2024)
Moderated a panel on poetry and process with Sascha Akhtar, Shikha Malaviya and Hiba Heba.
AnankeWLF2024 | Role of Literature Against Linguicide (April, 2024)
Part of a panel talk moderated by Sabin Muzaffar featuring authors and translators Sabyn Javeri and Hammad Rind.
AnankeWLF 2023 | The Language of Grief vis à vis Dialectics of Freedom & Autonomy (April, 2023)
Part of a panel talk moderated by Sabin Muzaffar featuring authors Sascha A. Akhtar and Safinah Danish Elahi.
AnankeWLF 2023 | Escaping the Identity Trap As a South Asian Writer (April, 2023)
Moderated a panel on escaping reductive representation as a South Asian writer. Featuring authors Faiqa Mansab, Farah Ali, and Soniah Kamal and editor and former literary agent Rukhsana Yasmin.
AnankeWLF 2023 | The Migratory Experience of Language (April, 2023)
Part of a panel talk moderated by Hammad Rind featuring authors Jayson Iwen and Mai AlNakib.
AnankeWLF 2022 | Rediscovering Feminisms (March, 2022)
Part of a panel talk moderated by Sabin Muzaffar featuring: Arpita Das, Arshia Sattar, and Nilanjana Bhowmick.
AnankeWLF 2021 | Editors as Enablers of the Literary World (April, 2021)
Moderated a panel talk on the role of editors featuring Rosemarie Hudson (Hope Road Press), Mehvash Amin (The Aleph Review and Broken Leg Publishing), and Wajiha Hyder (The News on Sunday).
AnankeWLF 2021 | Women’s Voices: Lost in Translation (March, 2021)
Part of a panel talk moderated by Sabin Muzaffar highlighting the role of women in translation, featuring Rabbania Shirjeel and Zarminae Ansari.
Translating the Subcontinent, Society of Authors (November, 2021)
Part of a panel moderated by Bishan Samaddar (Seagull Books) featuring Nedra Rodrigo (translator from Tamil) , and Ministhy S. (translator from Malayalam).
London School of Economics. Panel with Dr. Amina Yaqin and Dr. Adnan Khan
Panel with Dr. Amina Yaqin and Dr. Adnan Khan about ‘Defiance of the Rose’.
Women & Writing (August, 2019)
Part of a panel hosted by Nida Usman (Learn PK and Women in Law) featuring. Sana Munir (author of ‘Unfettered Wings’), Shabana Mahfooz (freelance Journalist, writer and trainer), Nasira Zuberi (Urdu Poet and Media Person), Sana Asif Dar (BBC Urdu Journalist) and. Sabahat Zakariya (Journalist/Feminustani).
Rethinking Writing in Pakistan (April, 2019)
Panel moderated by Nida Usman featuring Faiqa Mansab, Laaleen Sukhera, Zarminae Ansari, Shabana Mahfooz, Zahra Ali Khan, Faaiza Amjad, Ali Mazhar, and Waiza Rafique.