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Muneeza Shamsie
Muneeza Shamsie (born 1944) is a Pakistani people, Pakistani writer, critic, literary journalist, bibliographer and editor. She is the author of a literary history ''Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani English Literature'' (Oxford University Press) and is the Bibliographic Representative of ''The Journal of Commonwealth Literature'' . Shamsie is a regular contributor to the ''Dawn (newspaper), Dawn'' newspaper, as well as the ''Herald'' and ''Newsline'' magazines mostly on literary affairs; and also for the online Literary Encyclopedia. She is on the International Advisory Board of ''Journal of Postcolonial Writing'' and has guest-edited two of its Special Issue Volume 47 Issue 2, 2011: Beyond Geography: Literature, Politics and Violence in Pakistan; and Volume 52 Issue 2, 2016: Al-Andalus. She is on the Advisory Committee of the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and served as a 2013 jury member. From 2009 to 2011, she served as regional chair (Eurasia) for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamila Shamsie
Kamila Shamsie FRSL (born 13 August 1973) is a Pakistani and British writer and novelist who is best known for her award-winning novel ''Home Fire'' (2017). Named on ''Granta'' magazine's list of 20 best young British writers, Shamsie has been described by ''The New Indian Express'' as "a novelist to reckon with and to look forward to." She also writes for publications including ''The Guardian'', ''New Statesman'', ''Index on Censorship'' and ''Prospect'', and broadcasts on radio. Early life and education Shamsie was born into a well-to-do family of intellectuals in Karachi, Pakistan. Her mother is journalist and editor Muneeza Shamsie, her great-aunt was writer Attia Hosain and she is the granddaughter of memoirist Jahanara Habibullah. Shamsie was brought up in Karachi, where she attended Karachi Grammar School. She went to the US as a college exchange student, and earned a BA in creative writing from Hamilton College, and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Dean, West Sussex
West Dean is a village, Anglican parish and civil parish in the District of Chichester in West Sussex, England north of Chichester on the A286 road just west of Singleton. The parishes include the hamlets of Binderton and Chilgrove. The civil parish has a land area of . The 2001 Census recorded 425 people living in 177 households, of whom 248 were economically active. The village is on the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath. West Dean is in the Lavant Valley in the South Downs and has a Church of England parish church and one public house, ''The Selsey Arms''. The church and most of the houses are built of flint, in most cases with brick quoins and window dressings. History West Dean The Manor of West Dean was in the ancient hundred of Singleton, but was not mentioned by name in the Domesday Book of 1086. West Dean is a large Anglican parish and in 1861 extended to of arable, pasture, and woodland with a population of 681. The parish included Chilgrove. Binderton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech. * January 14 – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Pakistani Journalists
This is a list of Pakistani journalists from print and electronic media. A * Amin Hafeez *Ansar Abbasi * Ayaz Amir * Abdul Hameed Chapra * Asma Chaudhry * Ardeshir Cowasjee * Altaf Husain * Arshad Sharif * Aasma Sherazi * Abid Qaiyum Suleri * Akhtar Jamal *Agha Shorish Kashmiri * Anthony Mascarenhas *Asad Ali Toor * Ayaz Latif Palijo *Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi *Ahfaz-ur-Rahman * Ahmed Rashid * Ayesha Siddiqa *Akber Ali Wahidi (1957–2011), sports journalist * Abdullah Malik (1920–2003) B *Siddiq Baloch * Syed Babar Ali * Mujahid Barelvi * Rabiah Jamil Beg * Sana Bucha * Meher Bukhari C * Chiragh Hasan Hasrat E * Eqbal Ahmad F *Faysal Aziz Khan * Muhammad Farooq * Musharraf Ali Farooqi *Ian Fyfe G * Maulana Ghulam Rasool Mehr * Ilyas Gadit *Sabihuddin Ghausi * Gharida Farooqi H * Hasan Abidi * Zaib-un-Nissa Hamidullah *Muhammad Izhar ul Haq * Irshad Ahmed Haqqani * Khalid Hasan *Mehdi Hasan *Zahida Hina *Irfan Husain * Mishal Husain * Saneeya Hussain * Talat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pakistani English Literature
Pakistani English literature refers to English literature that has been developed and evolved in Pakistan, as well as by members of the Pakistani diaspora who write in the English language. English is one of the official languages of Pakistan (the other being Urdu) and has a history going back to the British colonial rule in South Asia (the British Raj); the national dialect spoken in the country is known as Pakistani English. Today, it occupies an important and integral part in modern Pakistani literature."Prolegomena to the Study of Pakistani English and Pakistani Literature in English" (1989), Alamgir Hashmi, ''Pakistani Literature'' (Islamabad), 2:1 1993. Dr. Alamgir Hashmi introduced the term "Pakistani Literature riginally writtenin English" with his "Preface" to his pioneering book ''Pakistani Literature: The Contemporary English Writers'' (New York, 1978; Islamabad, 1987) as well as through his other scholarly work and the seminars and courses taught by him in many univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulfikar Ghose
Zulfikar Ghose (March 13, 1935 – June 30, 2022) was a Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist. His works are primarily magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism. Biography Born in Sialkot, Punjab, which was in British India before Independence and Partition, Ghose grew up as a Muslim."Zulfikar Ghose" Encyclopædia Britannica. His father, Khwaja Mohammed Ghose, was a businessman. In 1942, during the Second World War, the family moved to (now Mumbai). After the partition of into Pakistan and India, Ghose and his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mumtaz Shahnawaz
Mumtaz Shahnawaz (1912–1948) was a Pakistani diplomat and writer. She had held degrees in English literature. Family She was born to Arain family of Mian Shahnawaz and his politically active wife, Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz. Thus, she was the granddaughter of Sir Muhammad Shafi, the influential leader from Punjab. Pakistan Movement Like her mother, Mumtaz Shahnawaz was drawn into the national movement as a Congress member but slowly shifted her sympathies towards to the Muslim League. Mumtaz or Tanzee as she was known to her family and friends was greatly influenced by Jinnah. Mumtaz Shahnawaz died at the age of 35 in a plane crash months after the creation of Pakistan, en route to New York to represent Pakistan at the UN General Assembly, the first woman in Asia to preside over a legislative session. Literary skills Her novel, '' The Heart Divided'' was probably the first novel on the theme of the partition of India. It tells the story of a Muslim family in North India duri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
