Samina Quraeshi (1944-2013) was an award-winning educator, designer, artist and author.

Life

She was raised in

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and lived in

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. She is the mother of Sadia Shepard, an author and filmmaker and Cassim Shepard a new York based town planner

Work

As an author she took inspiration from the

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tradition of the

Indus Valley The Indus ( ) is a transboundary river of Asia and a trans- Himalayan river of South and Central Asia. The river rises in mountain springs northeast of Mount Kailash in the Western Tibet region of China, flows northwest through the disp ...

. She wrote the following books: * ''Legacy of the Indus'' * ''Lahore: the City Within'' * ''Legends of the Indus'' * ''Sacred Spaces: A Journey with the Sufis of the Indus'' (published by Peabody Museum Press in 2009) * ''Reimagining West Coconut Grove: Landmarks''

References

Pakistani emigrants to the United States American writers of Pakistani descent Artists from Karachi Writers from Karachi 1944 births 2013 deaths Muhajir people 21st-century American women writers {{pakistan-writer-stub