Interview Qaisra Shahraz

Aquaria Sahara visited few puts in India and gave talks on her ii books. Her trip was made possible by her Indian publishers Penguin. I chanced to aver her cipher and I found It Interesting. Later my follower and the co -editor of this book prof A. R. sidewalk suggested that we could Interest umteen people to tolerate essays on the art and trickery of Aquaria Sahara. The chemical reaction simply everywherewhelmed us. In al just nigh no time we received the consent of a great many colleagues in India and elsewhere in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Europe and the linked States to write for this volume. Most of them wipe out unplowed their word.We atomic number 18 indeed grateful to them for their rice beer. bulge out of so many post-colonial Indian and Pakistani writers indite In face, what, In your pollen. Is exceptional about(predicate) Salsa Sahara as a rum metaphor writer? Of the postcolonial writers it is just Indian writers who hog each limelight. The Resides , the Gosh, the Despise. The fact is a lot of sweet and interesting paper is emerging from unlikely places. From Pakistan, from Bangladesh. And whatever be the mage of Pakistan in the media, Western and Indian, an interesting social function is that a lot of new writers argon emerging from Pakistan.Most of this writing Is rattling semipolitical which Is not surprising since Pakistan faces problems which argon essentially of political nature. However, there are virtuallywhat writers who focus attention on issues of a different nature. Aquaria Sahara is one such writer. She has charted a different territory. Issues of indistinguishability-rural, regional, gender -are her basic c formerlyrns. How has she contri thoed to the give-and-take on the gender Issue with special(a) reference o Pakistani ordination, specially in follow of her being ground in the UK/West?Most writers insist their link with their surface area of origin. Pakistan never disappeared from Aquaria Ashr ams imagi indispensable s whole tone. As a woman who has locomoted her purport hi romance In ii countries her writing is only enriched by her experience. The diasporas Identity has Its take advantages. In her case It Is not lack of approximatelything but rather the an open snapper. In her charm she shows the limitations of both Western and non-western feminism. Does Aquaria Sahara typify the libber post? She goes coldther than that. She redefines feminism for Pakistani society.Call it Moslem feminism, Islamic feminism or by whatever name she does not mindlessly indulge in Islam and Muslim bashing which is the motif in lots of ,what has been adjureed, ladened womens novels. Her target is rather the agrarian system, some oppressive customs in Kinds and the putrescence of Islam to serve ones own interest. What is Aquaria Ashrams attitude to patriarchy which is rife in Pakistani civilisation? She has a very vituperative cerebration of some patriarchic institutions. Some of her characters are self-consciously libber. Professor Night Sultana, for instance.Even Karri Banjos purportedly meek capitulation to a patriarchal institution give the axe be read as a criticism of patriarchy. In this instance she shows both the power and the darkness nature of patriarchy. What are your comments on Aquaria Ashrams concord and depiction of Pakistani village life and Islamic culture? For a soulfulness who has mostly lived in cities Aquaria Sahara shows remarkable judgment of rural life. The character of Kanji, Skulls and Amanita bib and others are products of rural set-up. While study her novels I was myself transported back in time and place.I was view of a woman in Titular,( my native place in Attar Pradesh) who passed invitations by word of mouth, fixed matches and spread gossipmonger in her own inimitable ways. I was reminded of the institution of village match claimr, a task which is now done on the net. The close- knit community, oppressive c ustoms, force of gossip, the disbelieve of the corrupting ways of the city-?these are all beautifully captured by Sierras narrative, especially in Typhoon. Sierras language is very different from other Indo-Angli give notice writers like hasten, Koran Ideas Iranian Ideas for instance.Could you solve? Of course it is different room what Rushed calls citified English. Others have Jokingly referred to the citadel of English. Aquaria has her own share of non English nomenclature because she is translating an entire culture. Words like Zeta and kismat add a richness to English vocabulary. I especially liked the papacy style of Sahara in Typhoon. It is her choice of delivery and English structures which is responsible for the leisurely tone of the sacred woman and the fast and brutal pace of Typhoon the contrast in the pace of the two books is so remarkable.How do you theorize this volume of Critical Essays on Aquaria Ashrams craft go away intricate to literature and pagan studies? I must confess that the numerousness of horizons offered by the contributors has far exceeded my initial understanding of her work. The contributors have analyses her work from all over faultfinding angles possible-? pedagogical. The varied backgrounds of the contributors-?British, Ameri merchant ship, Arab, Afri depose, German, Indian and Pakistani-?add some more than dimensions to the critical discourse on Sahara.What are some of the main conclusions of the critical scholarship on Aquaria Ashrams work. This is certainly not the final word on Aquaria Ashrams work. It is fitting the beginning. Other critics, most certainly students of literature, can take this work forward and look ideas do by by the contributors to this volume. Some critical opinion quotes on Aquaria Ashrams work. China Aquaria Sahara, a Pakistani-born English writer and scriptwriter, is such a wonderful story teller that readers can hardly put her stories down once they begin them.Reading her wor ks is like first a Journey with her unforgettable characters to Pakistan and gaining a deep insight into their lives, in particular the poignant lives of Pakistani women. Living in the I-J since she was 9 years old, but deep rooted in her own Pakistani culture, she keep goings the understanding surrounded by the einsteinium and the West. More importantly, through her excellent novels The Blessed Woman and Typhoon, she clarifies many Westerns stereotypical misconceptions about the Islamic cultures. I wish that Ms.Ashrams interest works will soon be introduced into China so that they will collide with an even wider readership and arouse the academic interest among Chinese academia, also in view of the fact that China also has a large population of Muslims. Tinting Going, relate Professor of English, Southwest University of Science and Technology( Managing) and arranger of consecrate Woman and Typhoon, China Germany My reading of Aquaria Ashrams The Holy Woman and Typhoon o ffered me my first palpable insight into the lives of women in Pakistani villages and into the types of story which symbolism rural and urban society in that field.It was a revelation and I read both books back to back. The Holy Woman in particular has justifiedly attracted global attention through its non-partisan characterization of the ambivalent relationship teen Islamic culture and Western consciousness as copn through the eyes of a woman. It is a very significant book indeed and Aquaria Ashrams is a voice of mediation which should be more widely heard. Robert Scrimshaw, KulturwissenschaftlichesKolleg, University of Constant, Germany. India transmutable.The migrant resource produces texts that cross geographic, national, ethnic, and even linguistic boundaries and make connections with the past and the present. Aquaria Sahara who describes herself as a British Muslim of Pakistani origin retains her bare-ass understanding of Pakistani society and culture, ND in living away from it, benefits from the distancing perspective which enables her in her fiction to nuance characters, situations and events talk harm with history and memory Juxtapose and learn old traditions and new sensibilities.She weaves flavors of life and the disposition of living into the texture of her writing. Each of her stories becomes a metaphor for complex exploration of identity formations and self- definitions. In her remarkable novels The Holy Woman and Typhoon and in her short stories, fictive belief and historical inscription blend significantly to produce reared texts that postulate deep conflict and innovative strategies of reading. Tune Musketeer, Professor of relative Literature, University of Hydrated, India.Indonesia As a citizen of a country with the biggest Muslim population in the globe, I found Aquaria Ashrams works as an eye opener about the diversity of the world Muslims. And I phone I am not alone in this opinion, since we witnessed how her two novels, Th e Holy Woman and Typhoon got a very good response from the Indonesian readersthats why we plan to republish the two in a product line that we call Gold Edition (novels).I do think that the Indonesian readers got the same enlightenment, that even when we are united as Muslims, we might amaze on a different fault of culture that very much influences our version about Islam. And because of that, we need more and more constructive dialogue, not only between the Muslim world and the West (non Muslim world), but also between world-Muslims itself to bridge differences to gain understanding between cultures. Mrs..Payments Innings, caput Executive Officer, Mizzen Publishing dramatic art Indonesia Morocco Aquaria Sahara is a voice of light whose penetrating scream faces the dark continent of ultra blindness and patriarchal and ideological manipulation. Her feminist writings vehemently uncover the weight down of the patriarchal order in an ideologically- colorful Pakistani Islamic circumstance, unveil the victimize of Islam in depriving women of their human and sexual rights and, consequently, invite a complex post-colonial and post-harem critical perspective on womens predicaments in the Arab-Islamic sphere as a whole.Ashrams feminist commitment calls for an imperative re-consideration of sexual politics and womens involvement in dismantling various areas of masculine vital force and building up a ultramodern and gender-democratic Muslim society. Hosannas Cirri, Professor, School of Humanities, Pakistan Aquaria Sahara is one of the most important category English fiction writer of Pakistani origin. Her fiction writing has created its own distinctive place by virtue of its quality and relevance to the present-day(a) issues.She has an extraordinary skill of raising some delicate and fundamental questions related to women issues in general and in particular about those women who are struggling to discover their exclusive identity in a polarize world. She presents some important aspects of the infiltration of determine between different civilizations through her strongly conceived characters. Though her characters and setting may contain a certain class or section but her themes overwhelmingly continue universal and humanism formulates the basic character reference of her fiction.Karma Charisma Squid, Editor (English), Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad, Pakistan bomb calorimeter The works of Aquaria Sahara, Actual Caddy (The Holy Woman) and Tiffany (Typhoon), have attracted attention with their striking themes and contemporary topics in joker. When Ms. Sahara visited our country in 2005 for *Istanbul take Fair, I got the hence to know her better. I saw that although writers, scientists or intellectuals from the East live in the West, they dont lose touch with their own culture.Aquaria Sahara is one of those intellectuals, who has the ability and experience to depict the East truly. She is a writer who can deftly read th e East plot of ground she lives in the West. In this respect, I can say that her novels are important examples to be analyzed academically. Since they were published in our country at a time when discussions were on-going on the theme of the clash of civilizations, they have also been reliable ND profitable sources of information for those who interpret the West other than from the East.We hope that Ms. Sahara, who deserves to be praised in terms of her literary insight, will go on writing books which will take their place among Eastern Classics books with their insightful themes. Burk Fuzzy kabuki, nous Editor Para Publishing House, Istanbul, Turkey Aquaria Ashrams writing, which has delighted and inspired readers all over the world for the past two decades, is at last receiving the scholarly attention it deserves.This exciting new collection of articles surveys the diverse range of themes and issues treated in Ashrams work feudalism and contemporaneity female sexuality, rom ance and divorce ghostly faith and the wearing of the veil the Pakistani theaterland and its Diaspora and pays tribute to the emotional depth and moral complexity of her gathered from crosswise the globe -? will be of especial interest to non-Muslim readers wishing to understand more about the historical and political context of Ashrams work.Just as Aquaria Ashrams writing has touched the lives of many thousands of general readers around the world, so will this collection most surely clear her new fans within the academic community. Lynn Pearce, Professor of Literary Theory and Womens Writing, Lancaster University, I-J United States of the States I was caught by the drama, the romance, the traditions, the shibboleths and the descriptions of town, village, house and home in her novels The Holy Woman and Typhoon.I could see so well the settings and characters Aquaria Sahara described so vividly. She let me into and behind the scenes so far from those in western homes but even so of common human interest. I hope to read the further adventures of her protagonists Ann Nicholson, Radio phalanx/Producer, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA