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Asad Alvi

Contributor

Asad Alvi

Asad Alvi is a writer based in Karachi. Their work engages queer studies, sufism, and translation. Their writing has appeared in Kashmir LitDawn, and The Hindu, among others, as well as in We Will be Shelter: An Anthology of Contemporary Feminist Poetry (2014) and Uprooted: An Anthology of Gender and Illness (2016). Newer work is forthcoming in The World that Belongs to Us: An Anthology of Queer Poetry from South Asia (2020).

Articles by Asad Alvi

Urdu Feminist Writing: New Approaches
By Asad Alvi, Amna Chaudhry, Mehak Faisal Khan, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Geeta Patel & Haider Shahbaz
A dispiriting narrowness has defined canons of Urdu feminist writing from previous decades.