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Reportage

Think global, stay local: Airbnb in Pakistan- The News on Sunday
Where do Pakistani women stand today? - The News on Sunday
The mess in Pakistan's higher education - The News on Sunday
​In foreigners we trust - The News on Sunday
The hazardous lives of coal miners in Pakistan - The News on Sunday
Election expenditures far exceed ECP's limits - The News on Sunday
Drivers of change: motorbikes to aid female mobility in Pakistan - The News on Sunday
At the army museum in Lahore - The News on Sunday
Following an honor killing in Pakistan - The News on Sunday
Following a beauty salon worker in Lahore - The News on Sunday
The heroic women of Pakistan's polio wars - The News on Sunday​
Tabdeeli - Where is the Change? - The Friday Times
On PTI's first rally in Lahore - The Express Tribune
Bicycling in Lahore - The News on Sunday

American Publications

How a mosque ended up next to a pig roasting, shot-pounding bar - Bedford and Bowery

Art

A review of the Lahore Biennale - The News on Sunday

Film

Review: Khoobsurat - The Friday Times
Watching Queen in a cinema full of Lahori women - The Nation
Review: Main Hoon Shahid Afridi - The Friday Times 

Music

Review of Lahore Music Meet, 2018 - The News on Sunday
An overview of the Pakistani music industry in 2017 - The News on Sunday​
Review of Lahore Music Meet, 2015 - The News on Sunday
Review of Rafi Peer Theatre Festival, 2014 - The Friday Times
Cultural roundup: Pakistan Idol - The Friday Times
Cultural roundup: co-option of Waderay ka Beta - The Friday Times​
Review of Tahira Syed's concert - The Friday Times​
Review of Sufi Music Festival at Peeru's, 2013 - The Friday Times​
A bomb kills a festival - The Express Tribune

Television

Digital platforms need to give Pakistani drama a run for its money - The News on Sunday
Is cerebral tv an oxymoron in today's Pakistan? - The News on Sunday
Selling victimhood - The Friday Times
Humsafar Review - Dawn
Moin Akhtar obituary - The Express Tribune

Theater

Review of Dawar Mehmood's Hua Kuch Yun - The News on Sunday
Review of Naseeruddin Shah's performance in Lahore - Express Tribune
Dastangoi in Lahore - The Friday Times
Review of Urdu version of Taming of the Shrew staged at The Globe - Blogspot

Books

Review of the book, Karachi, Our Story in our Words - The Friday Times
Review of Shehan Karunatilaka's Chinaman - The News on Sunday
Review of Audrey Niffenegger's The Night Bookmobile - The News on Sunday
Review of Lahore Literary Festival, 2013 - The Friday Times
Review of Lahore Literary Festival, 2013, Day 2 - The Friday Times
Review of Salman Ahmad's Rock'n'Roll Jihad - Daily Times

Cultural Criticism

India's emissary in Pakistan: Bollywood - First Post
Social marginalization at weddings - The News on Sunday
Pakistan's social media: a space for the marginalized - The News on Sunday
A revival of storytelling in old Lahore - The News on Sunday
Why is free speech so reviled in Pakistan? - The News on Sunday
Ashura's lesson of sorrow - The News on Sunday
From Hafeez Jalandhari to Vital Signs - The News on Sunday​
The straitjacket of institutional learning - The News on Sunday
Beyond the nuclear family - The News on Sunday
Pakistani spontaniety, a curious phenomenon - The News on Sunday
The ever-changing goalposts of fitness culture - The News on Sunday
Review of the Lahore Literary Festival, 2018 - The News on Sunday
How to think after the Zainab case - The News on Sunday
WAF celebrates feminist icon, Lalarukh - The News on Sunday
Stigma of single parenting in Pakistan - The News on Sunday
Of what use is a Literature degree? - The Nation
The changing face of female desire in Hollywood - The Nation​
On Censorship in Pakistan - The Nation
On Mubashar Lucman's attempts to radicalize Pakistan further - The Nation
On Pakistan's decrepit library scene - The Nation
The curious case of Punjabi - The Nation​
Pakistan's exploitative private schools - The Nation
Cultural roundup: Jahan-e-Jahan Ara  - The Friday Times​
On Shahid Afridi's desire to keep women in the kitchen - The Nation​
Cricket victories as wartime triumph - The Nation
Cultural roundup: Kitab.pk - The Friday Times​
Cultural roundup: Karachi, You're Killing Me - The Friday Times​
Bilawal Bhutto's Sindh Festival - The Nation
The derivativeness of today's Pakistani culture - The Nation
Where are Pakistan's funny women? - The Nation
Review of Khyaal Festival of Arts, 2013 - The Friday Times
On Lahore's iconic bookstore, Ferozsons - Dawn

Opinion

​Single in Pakistan - The News on Sunday

Interviews/Profile

Dr. Murad Moosa Khan - Chair Dept. of Psychiatry, Aga Khan University - The News on Sunday
Mobeen Ansari and Haroon Khalid on Pakistan's minorities - The Friday Times
Remembering Maya Angelou - The Nation
Veena Malik is back - The Friday Times​
Professor Sajjad Sheikh's legacy - The Nation
Vikram Seth: author of A Suitable Boy - The Friday Times
Saira Dar's independent bid for the National Assembly - The Friday Times

Political Commentary

What exactly is PTI's ideology? - The News on Sunday
Aitchison College: a symbol of Pakistan's elite culture - The Nation
Busting the nostalgic myths of Pakistan's past, Part I - The Nation​
Busting the nostalgic myths of Pakistan's past, Part II - The Nation​

Travel

Sri Lanka: In Bawa's land - The News on Sunday
Sri Lanka: Colombo's Diversity - The News on Sunday
Falling for Hunza 1 - The News on Sunday
Falling for Hunza 2 - The News on Sunday​
Times in London - The Friday Times
London: Six weeks among The Beatles and The Bard - The News on Sunday

Food

Mixing it up - The Friday Times
Searching for vegetarian food in meatlovers' land - The Friday Times​

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