Profiles:
Razia Bhatti
Ismat Chughtai
Bilquis Edhi
Salima Hashmi
Nazia Hassan
Mehreen Jabbar
Asma Jahangir
Fatima Jinnah
Rana L. A. Khan
Yasmeen Lari
Nafis Sadik
Bapsi Sidhwa
Sabiha Sumar
more to come...


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Articles:

Going Where I Know I Belong
Reminiscing Nazia
Ismat Chughtai: Unexplored Territory
Moving On

Contributors:
Faisal Abdulla
Ambreen Ali
Umar Cheema
Nalini Iyer
Laila Kazmi
Pratibha Kelapure
Anjum Niaz
Asra Nomani
Shabina Nishat Omar
Uzma Rizvi
 

Jazbah (Jäzbäh) is an Urdu word which means dedication or passion for a cause. This site is devoted to all those Pakistani women who have worked hard to achieve great goals and made significant, positive impacts in their societies.

 

Events: Film and Book

Ramchand Pakistani screens at the Seattle International Film Festival
June 6 & 7, 2008. Details at SIFF

Director: Mehreen Jabbar. Inspired by a real-life incident, Ramchand Pakistani examines the emotional turmoil of a 7-year-old Hindu boy and his father after they inadvertently cross into India... Read more .

Film Web site: http://www.ramchandpakistani.com/

 

Author Ahmed Rashid at Town Hall
June 16, 2008 See Details.

Renowned journalist and author, Ahmed Rashid, comes to Seattle with his latest book, Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. See event details here.

 

 

 

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01-June-2008

 


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