Viral Resistance
سنو تے رلو
A Radio Show with Dr Fawzia Afzal
Recorded at Mast FM 103, Lhore Station
An evening with Dr fawzia Afzal. Guests Dr Saeed Ur Rahman & Iqbal Haider Butt
Along with afzal sahir and aamir riaz
Fawzia Afzal-Khan is
Professor of English at Montclair State University, and University
Distinguished Scholar Award 2009/10. She was Director of the Women and Gender
Studies Program from 2009-15.
She is author of two books of
scholarly criticism, Cultural Imperialism: Genre and Ideology in the
Indo-English Novel (Penn State Press 1993), and A Critical Stage: The
Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan (Seagull Press, 2005). She
is co-editor of The PreOccupation of Postcolonial Studies (Duke University
Press, 2000), and Editor of the best-selling anthology, Shattering the
Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Interlink Books 2005). Her memoir:
Lahore with Love: Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani Style was published
by Syracuse University Press in 2010.
Afzal-Khan is a trained vocalist in North
Indian Classical music, a published playwright and poet, and has worked as an
actor and performer for Ajoka Theatre Troupe of Pakistan, as well as with the
experimental theatre collective Compagnie Faim de Siecle of which she was one
of the founding members. Her one-woman show Scheherezade
Goes West and plays Sext of Saudade
(co-written with Annie Lanzillotto) and Jihad
Against Violence (co-written with Bina Sharif) have been published in TDR (The Drama review) and performed at
universities and other venues in the USA as well as internationally; Jihad
Against Violence: Oh ISIS Up Yours! Will be produced by the Silk Road Rising
Theatre Company in Chicago during their 2016-17 season.
She serves as Contributing Editor on TDR (The Drama Review) and is Founding
Chair of the South Asian Feminist Caucus of NWSA (The National Womens Studies
Association of N America), where she also serves as a member of the Governing
Council. She was recently named on the Editorial Advisory Board of a new
peer-reviewed e-journal published by CUNY called Arab Stages.
She is currently working as
Creative Director and Producer on a documentary film about Pakistani Female
Singers, for which she won a development grant from the National Endowment o
the Humanities in 2011. She has also been awarded 2 Fulbright-Hays Fellowships
to Pakistan during AY 2015-16.
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