Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.
4th May 2022. 18.00 – 19.30.
The Reading Room, NYUAD Art Gallery (A4-008).
With Sabyn Javeri, Saba Karim Khan, and Huma Umar.
Does writing have a nationality? Are writers defined by geography, language, religion, gender and ethnicity alone, or are there other attributes that identify them? ‘Ways of Being’ – An Anthology of Pakistani Women’s Creative Non-Fiction looks at questions of ‘being’ and ‘belonging’. How does a writer relate to her context, whether at ‘home’ or ‘away’, and locate herself and her writing in it? How do they navigate the world around them and how do they resist becoming representatives of their ‘kind’?