Introduction

updates

Recent Readings / Productions:
May 2010: Produced Art Car Sprawl in the First Ward - a Voices Breaking Boundaries production celebrating the power of community and global connections. Show included a preview of VBB's art car, my retired '93 Honda Civic dressed up with video screens and Pakistani truck art, Houston, TX.
March 2010: Readings and Panel at Karachi Literature Festival, Karachi, Pakistan.
March 2010: International Women's Day Creative Writing Workshop and Reading with Michelle Otero at El Paso Community College, Valle Verde Campus, El Paso, TX.
November 2009: Produced Voices Breaking Boundaries’ 2009-10 season opener, Living Room Art :: Honoring Dissent / Descent, Houston, TX.
July 2009: Participated in the Macondo Writers' Workshop, San Antonio, TX.
March 2009: Gave a reading and participated in a panel discussion at Callaloo’s conference, Celebrating Texas Writers, College Station, TX.
January 2009: Participated in a reading and panel discussion at T2F with Nayarra Rahman, Fehmida Riaz, Bina Shah, Kamila Shamsie, Muneeza Shamsie. To celebrate the launch of Oxford University Press’ edition of And the World Changed: Writings by Pakistani Women (ed. Muneeza Shamsie). I have a short story in the anthology entitled “Soot.” The discussion was led by Pakistan Oxford University Press editor Ameena Saiyid, Karachi, Pakistan.
December 2008: Participated in a reading and panel discussion with writers Humera Afridi, Fawzia Afzal Khan, Sorayya Khan, Maniza Naqvi, Tahira Rahman, to celebrate the launch of the Feminist Press’ edition of And the World Changed: Writings by Pakistani Women (ed. Muneeza Shamsie). The discussion was led by Dohra Ahmad, New York, NY.

Some recent publications:
"For Choice." in an on-line roundtable Pens and Swords. The Mantle, January 26, 2010.
Houston Chronicle, Sunday October 11, 2009: "Education is the key to peace"
CITE Magazine, Fall 2009: "Sisters in Struggle: Karachi & Houston"