Muneeza Shamsie
Biographic Data
| ID | 101705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Muneeza Shamsie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Muneeza |
| FAMILY NAME | Shamsie |
| SIGNATURE | SHAMSIE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Karachi, Pakistan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Urdu poetry, 1935-1970: The progressive episode
Urdu poetry, 1935–1970: The progressive episode." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(5), pp. 725–726
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Pakistan
Pakistan
Introduction: The enduring legacy of al-Andalus
Reconstructing the story of Mustafa/Estebanico: A Moor in the New World: An interview with Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami’s award-winning novel The Moor’s Account reconstructs the pioneering and epic journeys of Estebanico, a Moroccan slave who was among the four survivors of the disastrous Spanish Narvaez expedition to Florida in 1527. He is a historical figure, mentioned in Cabeza de Vaca’s eyewitness account of that journey during which the members of the expedition were lost in alien North America and separated from their known world until they reac…
Granada: The light of Andalucia; The Moor's account: a novel
Granada: the light of Andalucia; The Moor’s account: a novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 232–233
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Aboard the democracy train: A journey through Pakistan's last decade of democracy
by Nafisa Hoodbhoy, London, Anthem Press, 2011, 268 pp., £14.99, ISBN 978 0 8572 8967 4 In 1984, Nafisa Hoodbhoy became the first woman reporter at Pakistan’s leading English daily, Dawn, which had
Pakistan: Compiled and introduced by Muneeza Shamsie
Exploring dualities: An interview with Moniza Alvi
This interview with poet Moniza Alvi looks at issues of British‐ness, cultural duality and gender. Alvi also discusses her childhood in Hertfordshire, where Pakistan was a distant dream rather than a reality and which she reclaimed in her work, and which led her later to explore the surreal realms of the imagination. She goes on to speak on the themes of war and violence, mythology and gender which permeate her recent poetry collections
Duality and diversity in Pakistani English literature
Today Pakistan is at the centre of geopolitical conflict and has been overtaken by increasing violence and religious extremism. At the same time, it has witnessed a great flourishing of new cultura
Pakistan
Sunlight and Salt: The Literary Landscapes of a Divided Family
This paper combines memoir and criticism to compare the treatment of Partition, class, colonialism, history and gender in two Partition novels from the same family: Sunlight on a Broken Column by the Indian writer Attia Hosain (1963) and Salt and Saffron (2000) by the Pakistani writer, Kamila Shamsie. Both novels portray a young woman's struggle for selfempowerment alongside their country's assertion of independence. Attia Husain's narrator, Lail…
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Sunlight and Salt: The Literary Landscapes of a Divided Family
This paper combines memoir and criticism to compare the treatment of Partition, class, colonialism, history and gender in two Partition novels from the same family: Sunlight on a Broken Column by the Indian writer Attia Hosain (1963) and Salt and Saffron (2000) by the Pakistani writer, Kamila Shamsie. Both novels portray a young woman's struggle for selfempowerment alongside their country's assertion of independence. Attia Husain's narrator, Lail…
Urdu poetry, 1935-1970: The progressive episode
Urdu poetry, 1935–1970: The progressive episode." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(5), pp. 725–726
Reconstructing the story of Mustafa/Estebanico: A Moor in the New World: An interview with Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami’s award-winning novel The Moor’s Account reconstructs the pioneering and epic journeys of Estebanico, a Moroccan slave who was among the four survivors of the disastrous Spanish Narvaez expedition to Florida in 1527. He is a historical figure, mentioned in Cabeza de Vaca’s eyewitness account of that journey during which the members of the expedition were lost in alien North America and separated from their known world until they reac…
Introduction: The enduring legacy of al-Andalus
Granada: The light of Andalucia; The Moor's account: a novel
Granada: the light of Andalucia; The Moor’s account: a novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 232–233
Duality and diversity in Pakistani English literature
Today Pakistan is at the centre of geopolitical conflict and has been overtaken by increasing violence and religious extremism. At the same time, it has witnessed a great flourishing of new cultura
Pakistan 2001–04
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Sunlight and Salt: The Literary Landscapes of a Divided Family
This paper combines memoir and criticism to compare the treatment of Partition, class, colonialism, history and gender in two Partition novels from the same family: Sunlight on a Broken Column by the Indian writer Attia Hosain (1963) and Salt and Saffron (2000) by the Pakistani writer, Kamila Shamsie. Both novels portray a young woman's struggle for selfempowerment alongside their country's assertion of independence. Attia Husain's narrator, Lail…
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan: Compiled and introduced by Muneeza Shamsie
Exploring dualities: An interview with Moniza Alvi
This interview with poet Moniza Alvi looks at issues of British‐ness, cultural duality and gender. Alvi also discusses her childhood in Hertfordshire, where Pakistan was a distant dream rather than a reality and which she reclaimed in her work, and which led her later to explore the surreal realms of the imagination. She goes on to speak on the themes of war and violence, mythology and gender which permeate her recent poetry collections
Duality and diversity in Pakistani English literature
Today Pakistan is at the centre of geopolitical conflict and has been overtaken by increasing violence and religious extremism. At the same time, it has witnessed a great flourishing of new cultura
Pakistan
Aboard the democracy train: A journey through Pakistan's last decade of democracy
by Nafisa Hoodbhoy, London, Anthem Press, 2011, 268 pp., £14.99, ISBN 978 0 8572 8967 4 In 1984, Nafisa Hoodbhoy became the first woman reporter at Pakistan’s leading English daily, Dawn, which had
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Introduction: The enduring legacy of al-Andalus
Reconstructing the story of Mustafa/Estebanico: A Moor in the New World: An interview with Laila Lalami
Laila Lalami’s award-winning novel The Moor’s Account reconstructs the pioneering and epic journeys of Estebanico, a Moroccan slave who was among the four survivors of the disastrous Spanish Narvaez expedition to Florida in 1527. He is a historical figure, mentioned in Cabeza de Vaca’s eyewitness account of that journey during which the members of the expedition were lost in alien North America and separated from their known world until they reac…
Granada: The light of Andalucia; The Moor's account: a novel
Granada: the light of Andalucia; The Moor’s account: a novel." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52(2), pp. 232–233
Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan
Urdu poetry, 1935-1970: The progressive episode
Urdu poetry, 1935–1970: The progressive episode." Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 55(5), pp. 725–726
Pakistan
Pakistan
History (25 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (23 works) · History (19 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Geography (7 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Literature (4 works)