Al-Fatah
The journal Al-Fatah (“The Victory” in Arabic) published in Karachi, Pakistan from May 1970 till approximately July 1990. The periodical was produced in Urdu in the two decades it was distributed and became a major supporter of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). The journal Al-fatah was largely socialist in terms of political inclination and critical of oppressive tendencies of the rental property economy. The political and social climate of Pakistan during the time of Al-fatah was extremely complex, making publishing as a left, critical periodical difficult to activate with continuing pressures of censorship from the state… read more
Munema participated in the Revolutionary Papers Classroom initiative and co-authored a teaching tool titled Al Fatah (The Victory), a weekly Urdu-language socialist periodical published out of Karachi, Pakistan. She is a third-year English major at LUMS, with a minor in Comparative Literature. Her research interests include feminist sexual politics, South Asian literature, revolutionary women’s poetry, and works […]
Niha Nazar participated in the Revolutionary Papers Classroom and co-authored a teaching tool on Al Fatah (The Victory), and Urdu-language left-leaning periodical published in 1970s Pakistan. She is an English major at the Lahore University of Management Sciences with an active interest in the interplay of affect, fiction and the creation of reality. She is […]
My name is Shiza Vaqas and I am a graduate from LUMS from the batch of 2023. I pursued Economics as my major and minored in English Literature. My research interests primarily lean towards exploring linguistic and literary texts through a transdisciplinary lens and effectively optimize digital tools to showcase the subsequent critical analysis.