Irfan Aslam

An oasis of celluloid on the Red Sea

Research suggests Saudi Arabia’s total revenue from cinemas is expected to be around $1.5bn by the year 2030... Published 14 Dec, 2022 07:09am

hijjay.com ups the game for Urdu users

Novelist and translator Musharraf Ali Farooqi has launched an online Urdu word game on the pattern of word scramble. Updated 12 Dec, 2022 01:49pm

Sole Iranian entry at Red Sea festival ‘most impactful’

A Childless Village also fetches Reza Jamali best screenwriter award... Published 11 Dec, 2022 05:52am

Jeddah film festival: a showcase for Arabic films

JEDDAH: The Red Sea Film Festival (RSFF) has emerged as a platform to showcase Arabic-language films,especially ... Published 09 Dec, 2022 08:32am

Wanted: a Punjabi scriptwriter for Gurinder Chadha’s film

JEDDAH: British filmmaker Gurinder Chadha would like to make a film about Punjab, saying she has a great idea to ... Published 06 Dec, 2022 07:00am

Jemima sees her Pakistan experience reflected in What’s Love Got to Do with It

Remembers hearing her friends in Pakistan lament that films in the West showed their country in a bad light. Published 03 Dec, 2022 05:31am

From right-wing student politics to progressive publishing

LAHORE: Amjad Saleem Minhas is one of the relatively progressive publishers from Lahore whose life took many turns... Published 23 Nov, 2022 07:29am

FICTION: NORMAL AS PARANORMAL

In Mirza Athar Baig’s latest novel set in the mountains, valleys and caves of the Potohar region, nothing happens many times while Published 20 Nov, 2022 07:00am

A peep into Harappa through the ages

LAHORE: Archaeologists and experts from related fields got together at the roundtable conference at the 11th Thaap... Published 20 Nov, 2022 06:59am

Punjab bans Joyland as it hits screens in Islamabad, Sindh today

LAHORE: Just a day after the federal government cleared the controversial but critically acclaimed film Joyland for... Published 18 Nov, 2022 07:04am

Is Joyland facing curbs for humanising transpersons?

Pakistan's award-winning formal entry for the Oscars was banned right before its release in cinemas. Updated 14 Nov, 2022 08:22pm

Is Joyland facing curbs for humanising transpersons?

Ministry of Information cancels censor certificate despite its Oscars entry... Updated 15 Nov, 2022 10:07am

Zubair Ahmad’s stories of Lahore then and now

LAHORE: “When I write short stories, I keep all the elements of fiction in mind. Reality has no organisation or a... Published 28 Oct, 2022 07:09am

China, India contest going to be important in shifting world: activist

"The centre of the world is shifting from Europe and North America to the East," says Sri Lankan activist. Updated 24 Oct, 2022 09:06am

Plight of Afghan women under Taliban rule highlighted

LAHORE: Sima Samar, the former Afghan minister for women affairs and chair of Afghanistan Independent Human Rights... Published 23 Oct, 2022 07:15am

American Fever and Pakistan at 100

LAHORE: Novelist Dur e Aziz Amna says she started writing her debut novel, American Fever, inspired by her own... Published 17 Oct, 2022 07:03am

Three fiction writers dissect western gaze

LAHORE: Novelist and translator Bilal Tanveer says the western gaze is not separate from the way we see ourselves.... Published 16 Oct, 2022 06:40am

Amrita Sher-Gil’s Apartment 23 and her last days in Lahore

Along the Ganga Ram Trust Building on The Mall, a small street leads to a neighbourhood that had once the house of... Published 19 Sep, 2022 04:01am

Sikhs extend help in relief work in flood-hit areas

LAHORE: As the relief work is still going on in the flood-hit areas of Punjab, Punjabi Sikhs from the UK have also... Published 05 Sep, 2022 03:33am

50 artists converge to raise funds for flood relief

About 50 artists got together and sent their 120 artworks, including calligraphy and sculptures, for an exhibition ... Published 02 Sep, 2022 07:04am