Artistic Works

PERFORMANCES

VIDEOGRAPHY

PANELS

performances, readings + installations

Mar 2010: Readings and Panel at Karachi Literature Festival, Carlton Hotel, Karachi, Defense Housing Society, Phase 5.
Mar 2010: International Women's Day Creative Writing Workshop and Reading with Michelle Otero at El Paso Community College, Valle Verde Campus.
Nov 2009: Curated and produced Voices Breaking Boundaries living room art show, Honoring Dissent / Descent, and created an audio-image installation, Houston, TX.
Jul 2009: Reading at Cafe Luna, Macondo Writers' Workshop's Cafe Nostalgia, San Antonio, TX.
May 2009: Screened a short video at Voices Breaking Boundaries' East End Live Art production Artists / Mothers, Houston, TX.
Mar 2009: Reading at Callaloo conference Callaloo Salutes Texas Writers, Texas A& M University, College Station, TX.
Jan 2009: Screening of video collage "Why Are You Looking At Me Like That?" at the jaipur International Film Festival.
Jan 2009: Reading and panel discussion at T2F for And the World Changed book launch, Oxford University Press, Pakistan, T2F, Karachi, Pakistan.
Jan 2009: Reading and discussion at Islamabad Club, Pakistan (presented by the US Embassy).
Dec 2008: Reading and panel discussion for And the World Changed book launch, Feminist Press, New York, NY.
Nov 2008: Screened a video collage at Voices Breaking Boundaries Pakistan Live Broadcast show.
Oct 2008: Reading for the Duke University’s Women’s Center, Durham, NC.
Oct 2008: Reading to launch And the World Changed at Art League Houston, Houston, TX.
Sep 2008: Created and installed a video collage at Voices Breaking Boundaries living room art production, Brown in the Third Ward.
May 2008: Reading and performance at BookWoman, Austin, TX.
Apr 2008: Reading at Indie Book Festival, Houston, TX.
Jan 2008: Reading at Second Floor Coffee Shop, Karachi, Pakistan.
Nov 2007: Reading at University of Texas, Austin, TX.
Aug 2007: Reading at University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan.
Aug 2007: Reading atSecond Floor Coffee Shop, Karachi, Pakistan.
Jun 2007: Featured author at Space125 Gallery hosted by Houston Arts Alliance, Houston, TX.
Mar 2007: Featured artist at “Howls in the Desert: A Reading by Mujeres Escritoras in Honor of Women's History Month at El Paso Community College’s Spring 2007 Arts Festival.
Mar 2007: Reading and panel on “The Imagination of Displacement” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Atlanta, GA.
Feb 2007: Performance for Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Un/Natural Disaster: Katrina-Kashmir.
May 2006: Performance for Voices Breaking Boundaries’ season closing, Words for Peace.
Mar 2006: Reading and panel at “South Asian Writers Speak: Women, War and Trauma” hosted by South Asia Institute and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, TX.
Mar 2006 Reading and panel on “De-Scribing Empire: Writing War” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Austin, TX.
Jan 2006: strong> Poetry performance at Dosti 2006: A Forum on Peace and Development in South Asia, Rice University, Houston, TX.
Jul 2005: Literary reading from Black Wings, Clifton, Karachi, Pakistan.
Mar 2005: Reading and panel on “History Adrift: Fictional Worlds and Imagined Realities” at  Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Vancouver, Canada.
Feb 2005: Literary reading from novel Black Wings at Voices Breaking Boundaries’ five-year anniversary celebration, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
Mar 2004: Reading and panel on “Pakistanis Writing in English” at Association for Writers and Writing Programs, Chicago, IL.
Sep 2003: Spoken word performance at Voices Breaking Boundaries’ Season Opener, Words for Peace, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX.
Feb 2000: Monthly performances at various venues as Voices Breaking Boundaries’ co-Founder, Borders Books, DiverseWorks and Inprint Inc., Houston, TX.
Oct 2001: Literary reading at “Trying to Praise the Mutilated World” at Brazos Bookstore, Houston, TX.
May 2001: Literary reading for Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, Talento Bilingue de Houston, Houston, TX.
Apr 2001 Performed spoken word at Houston International Poetry festival (HIP), Mausoleum Café, Houston, TX.
Mar 2001 Featured writer at International Women’s Month celebration at University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX.
Nov 2000 Performed poetry at the Orange Show, Houston, TX.
Apr 2000: Performed poetry at Houston International Poetry (HIP) Festival.
Aug 1999: Recorded short fiction for DiverseWorks’ PhoneWorks., Houston.
Jun 1996: Reading from Black Wings and led a teacher training workshop for Common Ground, University of Houston, TX.
May 1994 Reading and teacher training, Society of Pakistan English Language Teachers (SPELT), Karachi, Pakistan.