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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.
This column was edited by Iraj Toosy, with translations by Taran Khan, Asad Hussain, Sukhan, and Iqra Khan.
November 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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.
This column was edited by Iraj Toosy, with translations by Taran Khan, Asad Hussain, Sukhan, and Iqra Khan.
Read 'پچھل لکھت', Waqas Manzoor's Punjabi translation of Marie Howe's poem 'Postscript', in Issue Six of Lakeer Magazine:
lakeermagazine.com/pichal-likhat
lakeermagazine.com/pichal-likhat
November 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Read 'پچھل لکھت', Waqas Manzoor's Punjabi translation of Marie Howe's poem 'Postscript', in Issue Six of Lakeer Magazine:
lakeermagazine.com/pichal-likhat
lakeermagazine.com/pichal-likhat
The November edition of Chowk is full of thoughtful explorations of 'Boundaries/Borders - سرحدیں/حدود':
Read the November edition here:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
Read the November edition here:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
November 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The November edition of Chowk is full of thoughtful explorations of 'Boundaries/Borders - سرحدیں/حدود':
Read the November edition here:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
Read the November edition here:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
Earlier this year, Rabia Malik had an in-depth conversation with artist Sayera Anwar.
Read the full interview here:
lakeermag.com/interview-sa...
Read the full interview here:
lakeermag.com/interview-sa...
November 10, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Earlier this year, Rabia Malik had an in-depth conversation with artist Sayera Anwar.
Read the full interview here:
lakeermag.com/interview-sa...
Read the full interview here:
lakeermag.com/interview-sa...
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:
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@maazahmedddd
#essay #pakistaniwriters #chowklakeer
Read the full essay here:
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@maazahmedddd
#essay #pakistaniwriters #chowklakeer
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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:
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@maazahmedddd
#essay #pakistaniwriters #chowklakeer
Read the full essay here:
lakeermag.com/maaz-ahmed-o...
@maazahmedddd
#essay #pakistaniwriters #chowklakeer
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
Irta Usman
Muneeb Ilyas
Saad Jabbar
November 2, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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
Irta Usman
Muneeb Ilyas
Saad Jabbar
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!
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!
October 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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!
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!
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
lakeermag.com/lahore-between
October 28, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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
lakeermag.com/lahore-between
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/
Read the full essay here, on what informs - consciously and subconsciously - the ways we allow ourselves to move:
lakeermag.com/reflections/
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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/
Read the full essay here, on what informs - consciously and subconsciously - the ways we allow ourselves to move:
lakeermag.com/reflections/
'1974, Ali vs Foreman' by Jaweerya Mohammad.
Read this brilliant poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/1974-alivforeman
Read this brilliant poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/1974-alivforeman
October 16, 2025 at 8:02 PM
'1974, Ali vs Foreman' by Jaweerya Mohammad.
Read this brilliant poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/1974-alivforeman
Read this brilliant poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/1974-alivforeman
The surreal world of Ishma Fahim's art in Issue Six:
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#literarymagazine #art #lakeermagazine
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#literarymagazine #art #lakeermagazine
October 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The surreal world of Ishma Fahim's art in Issue Six:
lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's/#ishmaart
#literarymagazine #art #lakeermagazine
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#literarymagazine #art #lakeermagazine
From Manahil Tahira's short story, 'Naag Phalli's Miracle', in Issue Six.
Read it here:
lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's
Read it here:
lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's
October 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
From Manahil Tahira's short story, 'Naag Phalli's Miracle', in Issue Six.
Read it here:
lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's
Read it here:
lakeermag.com/naag-phalli's
💥 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
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
October 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
💥 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
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
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.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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.
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.
'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...
Check out her work here, in the September edition of Chowk:
lakeermag.com/mahnam-tanve...
September 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
'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...
Check out her work here, in the September edition of Chowk:
lakeermag.com/mahnam-tanve...
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
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
September 26, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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
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
'No Horror, No Grim Reaper' by Iraj Toosy in Issue Three.
Read this wonderfully unsettling poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/no-horror
Read this wonderfully unsettling poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/no-horror
September 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
'No Horror, No Grim Reaper' by Iraj Toosy in Issue Three.
Read this wonderfully unsettling poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/no-horror
Read this wonderfully unsettling poem in full here:
lakeermag.com/no-horror
What to submit for the Summer 2026 Special Issue:
🌕 Fiction
🌕 Essays
🌕 Poetry
🌕 Art
AND
🌕 Short plays
focusing on "Food (In)Security in Pakistan" as a result of:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Submissions will open from October 1 – November 30.
🌕 Fiction
🌕 Essays
🌕 Poetry
🌕 Art
AND
🌕 Short plays
focusing on "Food (In)Security in Pakistan" as a result of:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Submissions will open from October 1 – November 30.
September 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
What to submit for the Summer 2026 Special Issue:
🌕 Fiction
🌕 Essays
🌕 Poetry
🌕 Art
AND
🌕 Short plays
focusing on "Food (In)Security in Pakistan" as a result of:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Submissions will open from October 1 – November 30.
🌕 Fiction
🌕 Essays
🌕 Poetry
🌕 Art
AND
🌕 Short plays
focusing on "Food (In)Security in Pakistan" as a result of:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Submissions will open from October 1 – November 30.
SAVE THE DATE!
On October 1, we'll open for submissions for our Summer 2026 Special Issue.
Focus: food (in)security in Pakistan, with respect to:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Fiction, essays, poetry and art, in any language spoken in Pakistan.
On October 1, we'll open for submissions for our Summer 2026 Special Issue.
Focus: food (in)security in Pakistan, with respect to:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Fiction, essays, poetry and art, in any language spoken in Pakistan.
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
SAVE THE DATE!
On October 1, we'll open for submissions for our Summer 2026 Special Issue.
Focus: food (in)security in Pakistan, with respect to:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Fiction, essays, poetry and art, in any language spoken in Pakistan.
On October 1, we'll open for submissions for our Summer 2026 Special Issue.
Focus: food (in)security in Pakistan, with respect to:
- climate emergency
- urbanization
- migration
Fiction, essays, poetry and art, in any language spoken in Pakistan.
Avaaz is a new column at Lakeer, by Hammad Rind. It is a space where marginalized languages will be put in conversation with each other, via translations and short essays.
The first column centers Welsh.
Read it all here:
lakeermag.com/avaaz
The first column centers Welsh.
Read it all here:
lakeermag.com/avaaz
September 12, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Avaaz is a new column at Lakeer, by Hammad Rind. It is a space where marginalized languages will be put in conversation with each other, via translations and short essays.
The first column centers Welsh.
Read it all here:
lakeermag.com/avaaz
The first column centers Welsh.
Read it all here:
lakeermag.com/avaaz
There's a new column of Chowk!
It has wonderful photography by Iswa Anjum and Mahnam Tanveer, and a moving essay by Maaz Ahmed.
You can see all these works at:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
It has wonderful photography by Iswa Anjum and Mahnam Tanveer, and a moving essay by Maaz Ahmed.
You can see all these works at:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
September 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
There's a new column of Chowk!
It has wonderful photography by Iswa Anjum and Mahnam Tanveer, and a moving essay by Maaz Ahmed.
You can see all these works at:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
It has wonderful photography by Iswa Anjum and Mahnam Tanveer, and a moving essay by Maaz Ahmed.
You can see all these works at:
lakeermag.com/chowk2025
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
September 9, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Saad Choudhry lives in Pakistan. His work is largely concerned with Karachi – its streets, its people, its trash, its treasures, and exhibited at Koel Gallery & Como Museum. Photography has opened up his life...with nothing but a camera, he jumps off the cliff again and again.
lakeermag.com/giants
lakeermag.com/giants
September 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Saad Choudhry lives in Pakistan. His work is largely concerned with Karachi – its streets, its people, its trash, its treasures, and exhibited at Koel Gallery & Como Museum. Photography has opened up his life...with nothing but a camera, he jumps off the cliff again and again.
lakeermag.com/giants
lakeermag.com/giants
From Jalal Tarar's atmospheric poem 'Staying at Home on a Snowy Evening', in Issue Four of Lakeer Magazine.
lakeermag.com/staying-at-h...
lakeermag.com/staying-at-h...
September 2, 2025 at 10:54 AM
From Jalal Tarar's atmospheric poem 'Staying at Home on a Snowy Evening', in Issue Four of Lakeer Magazine.
lakeermag.com/staying-at-h...
lakeermag.com/staying-at-h...