An award-winning screenwriter and director, Bee Gul, has written some critically acclaimed plays and films for television such as Talkhiyaan, Pehchaan, Kaun Qamar Ara, Firdous ki Dozakh, and Dar Si Jaati Hai Sila. Apart from television, she has written some unconventional theatre scripts. She has written scripts for feature films namely Laloolal.com and Intezar. Bee Gul won a LUX Style

Sarmad Khoosat is an award-winning actor, film/TV director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing the TV dramas Humsafar and Shehr-e-Zaat. He was nominated as best actor and director for Manto at the Lux Style Awards; and won the jury choice award for best actor for Manto at the ARY Film Awards. His film Zindagi Tamasha won the Kim Ji

Sabyn Javeri is Senior Lecturer of Writing at New York University, Abu Dhabi. She is the author of Hijabistan (Harper Collins, 2019) and the novel Nobody Killed Her (Harper Collins: 2017) and has edited two anthologies of student writing titled, The Arzu Anthology of Student Voices (Vols. I & II; HUP, 2019, 2018). Her writing has been widely anthologized and

A renowned poet, Fazil Jamili is known for his ghazal and nazm. A journalist by profession, he is currently working as Senior Digital Editor at Interlink Multi Media (IMM)—a digital company of Jang/Geo Media Group. A former Editor Content, Samaa TV, and Resident Editor, Aaj Kal, he actively participates in the journalists’ rights movement and is currently serving as the

Astrid Swenson is Professor of History at Bath Spa University in the UK. She writes on the cultural history of Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth century in a global context. Her publications on heritage, memory, art, and museums include The Rise of Heritage in France, Germany and England, 1789-1914 (Cambridge University Press 2013); From Plunder to Preservation: Britain and

Dr Aurore Didier is permanent researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, in charge of the ‘Indus-Balochistan programme’, and director of the French Archaeological Mission in the Indus Basin. Dr Didier recently published a monograph on the 3rd millennium pottery from Kech-Makran and is currently writing a book on the Kech-Makran region during the Indus Civilization period. Since

Mohammed Moulessehoul better known by the nom de plume Yasmina Khadra is an award-winning Algerian author who writes in French and Arabic. A former officer of the Algerian army, he adopted his wife’s name as a pseudonym to avoid military censorship. His novel set in Afghanistan under the Taliban, The Swallows of Kabul, was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary

Pakistani physicist, Dr Abdul Hameed Nayyar, taught at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad for 32 years. Since retirement, he has pursued research on issues in education, energy, and nuclear disarmament. He has also been associated with Princeton University, USA, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), and the Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad in various capacities. He is a member of the International

Associate Professor of Social Sciences and Liberal Arts and former Associate Dean, IBA Karachi, Dr Huma Baqai’s teaching and research experience spans a period of over twenty-five years, and has to her credit forty-plus publications. She is a member of the Prime Minister’s Advisory Council on Foreign Affairs; member to the Advisory Committee on Status of Women, Government of Sindh;

Sheba Saeed, a solicitor by profession is a lecturer of Media at the School of Media, Communication and Creative Studies HBU-UCLAN (a joint school of the University of Central Lancashire, UK and Hebei University, China). She holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham, UK. Her debut documentary Beggars of Lahore has been screened at international conferences and film festivals.