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Sculptor Shahid Sajjad is the recipient of the Engro Excellence Award 2012
The Engro Excellence Awards held in Karachi for the second year running is gaining credence with the intelligentsia of the nation simply bec [...]
Adeela Suleman
As Bibi Shirini and other Pashto songs battle with roaring motorcycle engines in the semi-commercial area of Kashmir Colony, there lies a hidden secre [...]

Sex and Violence Death and Silence by Gordon Burn
Gordon Burn was a writer not an art critic. He wrote four well-received novels , one of them called Alma Cogen for which he received the Whitbread Fir [...]

Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]

Disguises and Deceit: Saba Iqbal
In the psychological drama of everyday life, human beings react to events in strange and bizarre ways— people cry at graduations and weddings, others [...]

Moeen Faruqi: Visceral Encounters
Asma Mundrawala: Let’s begin by talking about your imagery. Who are these people in your paintings?
Moeen Faruqi: They [...]

Tazeen Qayyum
ArtNow: The idea of entomology is an integral part of your oeuvre. What does it mean to you? What is the significance of the cockroach?
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Damishq, the City of Jasmine
Damascus, commonly known as al-Shaam, is also known as the "City of Jasmine" Arabic: (Madinatul Yasmin) It is the capital and largest city of Syria, a [...]

Iqbal Geoffrey
My first awareness of Iqbal Geoffrey was through The Odder Storey, his very own one-man-show retrospective temporary-museum, within Rasheed Aræen’s 19 [...]

Peer Pressure by Brad Troemel
We rarely get to read anything of actual substance within critical writing these days. So much so that we naively celebrate pieces written by ‘star’ c [...]