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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In his essay "Ghuttan: A Sociocultural Illness," Muhammad Khuzaima Nizami talks about ghuttan as a malady brought on by the way cities are built. He compares the capitalist-centric structures and lives there to the more nature-centric ones in Cholistan. In Issue Eight lakeermag.com/khuzaima-niz...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Malaika Rai's powerful poem گِدھ simmers with rage, published in Issue Eight. Read the full poem here: lakeermag.com/malaika-rai-...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
We are thrilled to introduce our brilliant lineup of speakers for the upcoming event on September 20th! Get tickets for “Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented?” here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-acr...
Poster for panelists and chair for the virtual event titled Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented? The poster is read, and there are 6 photos on it.
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Read 'God Story' by Irta Usman, about Awais Bhai who lives in a Lahore divided into the North and the South, and his love for the city. This story appears in Issue Eight – The Climate & Hunger Issue. lakeermag.com/irta-usman-g...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hammad Rind, writer, translator, and the translation editor at Lakeer, talks about the upcoming event "Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented?". Here, he speaks about the continued importance of working with South Asian languages. * Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-acr...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
In September, National Translation Month, join Lakeer in its virtual event "Voices Across Borders: Who Gets Represented?" about translating from underrepresented South Asian languages. 🗓️Sunday, September 20 ⏲️6 PM PKT (9 AM EST) 📌Online Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-acr...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
We're thrilled that Lakeer is the proud recipient of a 2026 PEN Translates x SALT Grant. Lakeer has published over 60 translations, in Urdu, Punjabi, Gujrati, Welsh, Tamil and Sinhala. With support from PEN Translates x SALT Chicago, we're set to hold our first event next month!
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
🎉 THE LATEST ISSUE OF LAKEER MAGAZINE IS HERE! ISSUE EIGHT, SUMMER 2026 SPECIAL - THE CLIMATE & HUNGER ISSUE! In it is a landscape of related, overlapping concerns: human-made climate catastrophes; questions about injustice and pushbacks on violence. Read here: lakeermag.com/issue-eight
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Sarah Ahmad's art, 'Landscapes of Imagining, II', appears in Issue Seven. Sarah lives and works between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Lahore, Pakistan. At the core of her work is transformation...and renewal, just as the earth continually seeks to heal itself. www.sarahahmad.com
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'Solitudes' by Raja'a Khalid is a short story about two sisters, different in temperament to each other. Circumstances take them far from home, where, away from the usual distractions, each sister discovers something about herself. Read the full story in Issue Seven: lakeermag.com/rajaa-khalid...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Poetic Renditions' Column 3, by Amama Bashir, features Jaun Elia's poem ہمیشہ قتل ہو جاتا ہوں میں 'Hamesha Qatal Hojata Huun Mein', translated by Javeria Hasnain, Shandana Minhas, Yusra Amjad, and Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi. lakeermag.com/prcolumn3-2/
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
This year, Lakeer's Summer Mentorship Program is joined by two more incredible writers as mentors: 🌟 POETRY 🟣 FATIMA JAFAR 🌟 FICTION 🟣 HASSAAN MIRZA
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Announcing our poetry cohort for the Lakeer Summer Mentorship Program! 🌟 POETRY Ayesha Owais Zainab Khalid Eesha Hammad Shahzadi Fatima Malalai Noor Khan Mentored by Fatima Jafar and Aiman Tahir Khan. Congratulations to the participants!
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Announcing our cohort for Food Writing and Translation, for Lakeer Summer Mentorship Program! 🌟 FOOD WRITING Zainab Saeed 🌟 TRANSLATION Konain Fatima Congratulations to the selected participants!
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We are so excited to announce our cohort for the Lakeer Summer Mentorship Program! 🌟 FICTION Abdul Kabir Sara Ilyas Eman Farhan 🌟 SPECULATIVE FICTION Jalal Tarar Saamia Haq 🌟 CREATIVE NONFICTION Anees Ur Rehman Huda Lakhani Naaseh Sajid Congratulations!
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Listen to Iqra Shagufta Cheema's translation from Urdu of Zehra Nigah's poem 'Mother, I Survived'. The moving translation and reading by Iqra are included in Issue Seven of Lakeer Magazine: lakeermag.com/zehra-nigah-...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
In our latest issue, Rabia Malik speaks with Tayyba Maya Kanwal about Tayyba's debut short-story collection 'Talking with Boys' (Black Lawrence Press, 2026). The stories take place in the US, the UAE, and Pakistan. Read the full interview here: lakeermag.com/tayyba-maya-...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
There is movement and transformation in Ayesha Owais's poem, 'A poem where the dog comes back as a fish'. Read it in full in Issue Seven of Lakeer Magazine: lakeermag.com/ayesha-owais...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Lakeer is a nonprofit literary publication, dedicated to creative voices from Pakistan and its diaspora. We depend on donations to pay our writers, and to keep our platform alive. To support work that matters, please donate today at the link in our bio.
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
⭐️ The Lakeer Summer Mentorship Program 2026 offers mentorship across a range of categories. ⭐️ Applications close on 18 May. ⭐️ The program is free, and online. ⭐️ Guidelines at: lakeermag.com/mentorship
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Bareerah Ghani talks to Daniyal Mueenuddin, author of the novel 'This Is Where the Serpent Lives' (Knopf, 2026). They speak about power, servitude, and the manifestations of these in the characters in the novel. Read the full interview in Issue Seven: lakeermag.com/daniyal-muee...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Sri Lankan writer, educator, and theatre practitioner – and guest editor for Chapter Two of Avaaz – Gaya Nagahawatta brings to us five poems and a short story in Tamil and Sinhala, translated into Urdu and Shahpuri by Hammad Rind, and Majhi Punjabi by Rabia Malik. lakeermag.com/avaaz-sinhal...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
In her essay 'Beyond Gumnam Tareekh', Musfira Khurshid looks at archives that are texts and buildings, and pays special attention to the silences in them, showing us that there is more than one way we are always connected to the past. Read it in Issue Seven: lakeermag.com/musfira-khur...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
📅 We can't wait to see everyone at Lakeer Kahaniyan Lahore! This will be an open-mic evening, with some of our contributors reading as well. ⏰ 15 Feb | 6pm 📍 The Last Word Bookstore, Lahore 9 A Main Blvd Gulberg، above Third Culture Coffee, Block K Gulberg 2, Lahore
Poster for Lakeer Kahaniyan Lahore
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
'The Marchers Have Reached the Capital' by Sakina Hassan, in Lakeer Magazine's Spring 2024 issue. Read the full poem here: lakeermag.com/the-marchers/
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
📢 SUBMISSIONS CALL for Lakeer Magazine! 📢 Fiction, personal essays, and book reviews. #lakeermagazine
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
'Unrest' by Zuneera Shah, a short story we published in our first issue, in autumn 2023. Read the complete story here: lakeermag.com/unrest
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
🌟 We are thrilled that our next Lakeer Kahaniyan event will be in Lahore! Free admission! Registration required. 🌟 Date: 15 February 2026 🌟 Venue: The Last Word Books 9 A Main Blvd Gulberg, above Third Culture Coffee, Block K Gulberg 2, Lahore 🌟 Time: 6pm - 7:30pm Details⬇️
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds قمبری/ویلش: ایک زبان سو رکاوٹیں One of the poems that Hammad Rind has translated for Avaaz, into Urdu from Welsh, is 'Marwnad i ieithoedd' by Menna Elfyn. The Urdu title is زبانوں کا مرثیہ. lakeermag.com/avaaz-welsh/ @hammadrind.bsky.social
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
'Judy, Judith, No Holofernes' by Sara Javed Rathore, in Issue Six of Lakeer Magazine. lakeermag.com/judy-judith/
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Thank you to everyone who attended Lakeer Kahaniyan on Nov 16! We had a wonderful gathering. Thank you to the attendees, and to Fatima Sajjad, Fatima Shafi and Maliha Hasan. Here's Irta Usman reading from a new short story.
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The ninth column of Poetic Renditions is a wonderful array of translations, from Urdu to English, of a ghazal by Nasir Kazmi. Guest edited by Naima Rashid, with translations by Amna Ali Khan, Ali Arif, Siddiqua Fatima Virji Read it here: lakeermag.com/prcolumn9
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
From 'The Edge', a short story by Fatima Sajjad, in Issue Six of Lakeer Magazine. Read the story in full here: lakeermag.com/the-edge
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The second column of Poetic Renditions includes translations into Urdu of Naomi Shihab Nye's deeply affecting poem, 'Making a Fist'. This column was edited by Iraj Toosy, with translations by Taran Khan, Asad Hussain, Sukhan, and Iqra Khan.
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Read 'پچھل لکھت', Waqas Manzoor's Punjabi translation of Marie Howe's poem 'Postscript', in Issue Six of Lakeer Magazine: lakeermagazine.com/pichal-likhat
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
The November edition of Chowk is full of thoughtful explorations of 'Boundaries/Borders - سرحدیں/حدود': Read the November edition here: lakeermag.com/chowk2025
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Earlier this year, Rabia Malik had an in-depth conversation with artist Sayera Anwar. Read the full interview here: lakeermag.com/interview-sa...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
An excerpt from Maaz Ahmed's personal essay, 'October of Sonipat', about virtual borders in close friendships, published in Chowk 2025. Read the full essay here: lakeermag.com/maaz-ahmed-o... @maazahmedddd #essay #pakistaniwriters #chowklakeer
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
We told you our line up is 🔥. Meet our readers for our upcoming virtual event, Lakeer Kahaniyan, on November 16, Sunday at 8pm Pakistan Time: Irta Usman Muneeb Ilyas Saad Jabbar
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
One month left to submit to our Summer 2026 Special Issue! Send us your fiction, poetry, essays, short plays, photography/art, centering the idea of 'Food (in)security in Pakistan'. Guidelines here: lakeermag.com/submissions Last date: November 30 We're looking forward to your work!
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Faizan Ahmad shares his beautiful photography in his essay 'Lahore Between Two Trains: Then and Now'. You can read the full essay here: lakeermag.com/lahore-between
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
From Durre Shahwar's essay, 'Reflections on Jagged Movements', in Issue Six. Read the full essay here, on what informs - consciously and subconsciously - the ways we allow ourselves to move: lakeermag.com/reflections/
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
'1974, Ali vs Foreman' by Jaweerya Mohammad. Read this brilliant poem in full here: lakeermag.com/1974-alivforeman
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The surreal world of Ishma Fahim's art in Issue Six: lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's/#ishmaart #literarymagazine #art #lakeermagazine
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
From Manahil Tahira's short story, 'Naag Phalli's Miracle', in Issue Six. Read it here: lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
💥 OUT NOW: Issue Six, Autumn 2025, Lakeer Magazine. Thank you to all the wonderful contributors: 💥 Fiction: Tayyba Kanwal, Nuzhat Nisar, Manahil Tahira, Fatima Sajjad 💥 Essays: Durre Shahwar, Faizan Ahmad Read the issue here: lakeermag.com/issue-six
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
SUBMIT to our Summer 2026 Special Issue! We are looking for work about Food (In)Security in Pakistan due to ☀️ climate emergency ☀️ urbanization ☀️ migration Send us your ☀️ fiction ☀️ poetry ☀️ essays ☀️ short plays (10 min long) ☀️ art in Saraiki, Punjabi, Sindhi, Urdu and English. Last date: Nov 30.
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
'Warm echoes, Hunza 2023' is part of a series of photographs by Mahnam Tanveer, called 'Four Doors'. Check out her work here, in the September edition of Chowk: lakeermag.com/mahnam-tanve...
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Adeela Khan's artwork appears in Issue Two of Lakeer Magazine. About the work, she says: "The heart is a port with its own waterways." Adeela shares her art and processes at @adeeladraws. lakeermag.com/ports
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Lakeer @lakeermag.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
'No Horror, No Grim Reaper' by Iraj Toosy in Issue Three. Read this wonderfully unsettling poem in full here: lakeermag.com/no-horror
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