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Revolutionary Papers is a transnational research collaboration exploring 20th century periodicals of Left, anti-imperial and anti-colonial critical production. Read More

Shiza Vaqas

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.

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Al-Fatah and the Struggle for Press Freedom

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Munema Zahid Niha Nazar Shiza Vaqas
10 May 2023

  Al-Fatah (“The Victory” in Arabic) was a weekly Urdu-language socialist periodical published out of Karachi, Pakistan, from May 1970 till approximately July 1990. It published a wide variety of content, although there was a distinct proclivity towards political topics. Al-Fatah‘s socialist leanings informed many stances that it took during its run. It was decidedly pro-China […]

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▴ Al-Fatah was a pro-worker, pro-union publication. Al-Fatah, 1 June 1972.
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 […]

Urdu
Asia
Pakistan
Anticolonialism Censorship Decolonisation Socialism Trade Unionism