THERE's always a point in the life of women working in the media, where they are asked: What's a lady like you doing in a field like this?
It's true that the media represents a huge departure from traditionally acceptable women's occupations. The (...)
I LOVED Ahmed Faraz's poetry, and I'm not even an Urdu litrature aficionado.
Unlike other Urdu poets who seem to delight in the undecipherable, his verses were simple, some say simplistic, that went straight to the heart – even for someone as Urdu (...)
too-familiar pang that I read the story, “Woman wearing veil asked to leave Italian museum”, about a niqab-wearing Muslim woman who was asked to leave Venice's Ca' Rezzonico museum, which houses 18th-century Venetian art, because she refused to take (...)
“WHAT's the point?”
A lot of perplexed viewers are asking each other this question, after MTV Arabia's announcement on August 20, that it would take the channel's trademark racy music videos off the 24-hour rotation in Ramadan, and broadcast only (...)
