art writing:

The Aleph Review (online)

‘Worlds Between Words’: a review of Ali Kazim & Zarina’s show Urdu Worlds at Ishara Art Foundation

‘Elemental Gestures’: a review of Traces, a group show at COMO Museum

‘Monuments to the Everyday’: an interview with Faiza Butt on the Pakistan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2026

‘Polyphonic Solidarities’: a review of Gathering Grounds curated by Abdullah Qureshi

‘Chthonic Whispers’: on Anushka Rustomji’s A Floral Arboretum

‘Weaving Memory and Myth’: on Khadim Ali’s solo at COMO Museum

‘Nausheen Saeed’s Secret Keepers’: a review of Enigma at White Wall Gallery

‘On the Question of Style’: a review of Beyond DNA 1 at O Art Space

‘The View from Grey’: a review of Greyscale at White Wall Gallery

‘Surreal Serenity’: a review of Minaa Mohsin’s solo at O Art Space

‘Rebellions: Imagined & Inherited’: on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Jr’s retrospective at COMO Museum

‘Zero to Infinity’: on Rasheed Araeen’s retrospective at COMO Museum


The News on Sunday (print & online)

‘A pilgrimage to stillness’: on Michelle Farooqi at Tagh’eer Lahore

‘After-images of silence’: on a group show at Tagh’eer Lahore

‘An ode to print’: on a printmaking show at Kaleido Kontemporary

‘Feral tendernesses of Sahyr Sayed’: a review of the artist’s solo at White Wall Gallery

‘Tales from two cities’: on OSCH’s Crafting Histories


Catalogue Commissions

‘All That A Body Holds’ for Where The Body Begins, a group show at White Wall Gallery

‘Begin Afresh, Afresh’ for Karim Ahmed Khan’s solo And Yet, Green at White Wall Gallery

‘A Remembrance of Things Lost’ for Attiya Javed’s solo A Thread That Remembers: An Archive of Memory, Belonging & Migration at White Wall Gallery

fiction:

Short Fiction in Prose in English from Pakistan: A 21st Century Anthology (edited by Mehvash Amin & Shafiq Naz—forthcoming from Alhamra Publishing)

‘Lost Letters’
Short Fiction
Uncollected: Peculiar Poetry & Prose (Olomopolo Media; 2024)

‘Persy Day’
Short Fiction
The Aleph Review, Vol. 4 (2020)

‘Chrysalis’
Short Fiction
The Aleph Review, Vol. 2 (2018)

general non-fiction:

‘Constructing Identities’
An interview of Taymour Soomro
The Aleph Review, Vol. 7 (2023)

‘Entering the Third Space’
An Interview of Ursula Kiesling
The Aleph Review, Vol. 6 (2022)

‘Literary Revolts’
An Interview of Saleem Haddad
The Aleph Review, Vol. 5 (2021)

interviews: