Shad Naved’s The Ghazal Eros: Lyric Queerness in History is a long-awaited study. This book has been anticipated not only as an important scholarly intervention but also as a distillation of Naved’s ...

Mastering the Urdu language, known for its intricate beauty and poetic depth, is a feat for any non-native speaker. For Malayali playback singer Gayatri Asokan, this tough journey went even further; ...

THE word ghazal is derived from an Arabic root and it means ‘to talk amorously to women’. According to some scholars, ghazal also means ‘a doleful cry of pain uttered by a deer when surrounded by ...

Lauren Ghazal wasn’t sure how to react when, in 2018 — just a few months after starting her nursing theory Ph.D. program at New York University — her doctor told her that she had Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

The most popular expression of poetry in Urdu and Persian, the ghazal, is known as much as a poetic form as it is as a genre of music. The ghazal has roots in seventh century Arabia and gained ...

Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Baker of Tarifa based on the history of interfaith tolerance in Al-Andalus won the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize ...

In the late nineties a duo that called itself Ghazal issued an album that, out of the blue, got the high critics of the American media singing. For several years, at irregular intervals the little ...

The publications, ‘Sukhan Nishani Ishq Ki’ and ‘Rang Khabeeda Paray Hain’, represent the two most important and popular genres of Urdu literature, ‘ghazal’ and ‘nazm’, respectively. Iqtidar Javed is a ...

The renowned singer talks about introducing the Spanish guitar and bass to ghazals; his wife, Mitali Singh, tells us more about their musical journey together. Bhupinder Singh and Mitali Singh are two ...

Ghazal Paris was established in 2019 by Houda Gianasso and boy does she deliver in footwear design. The shoes are crafted in Italy with love, and when it comes to silhouettes there’s a whole range to ...