SEATTLE COMMUNITY EVENTS:

April 12, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. Join us for a reading by Pakistani author, Mohsin Hamid, from his latest novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, at the Elliott Bay Book Company, 101 South Main Street, Seattle, WA. Ph: (206) 624-6600.

Jazbah is happy to co-sponsor the Mohsin Hamid reading at the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.

Born in Lahore, Pakistan, Mohsin Hamid did college studies in the U.S. and now lives in London. He received high praise and numerous honors—the Betty Trask Award, New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and PEN/Hemingway finalist status—for his first novel, Moth Smoke . He makes this welcome first appearance here for his much-anticipated new novel, The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt)... more

 

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Past Events Co-Sponsored by Jazbah:

Seattle's 2nd Independent South Asian Film Festival (ISAFF 2005)
Sept 14-18, 2005, Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle,WA . 
Full Festival Schedule & Ticket Information at http://isaff.tasveer.org

This is an exciting festival featuring films from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Afghanistan, and Bhutan.

The following program of short films from Pakistan is sponsored by Jazbah ( http://www.jazbah.org ) and Chowrangi magazine ( http://www.chowrangi.org ).

Shorts Program: 'Urban Hum of Pakistan'
Sunday, Sept 18th at 5p.m.
Broadway Performance Hall, 1625 Broadway, Seattle,WA

Tabdeeli 2004

A diverse selection of short films and documentaries by contemporary Pakistani filmmakers, varying in themes from personal to social and political, this program is curated by Laila Kazmi, founder of Jazbah.org and Associate Editor of Chowrangi, a Pakistani-American magazine of arts, culture, and politics.

Your Beautiful World (Manizhe Ali, 2004, DV, 2 mins 20 sec)
Based on a poem by Manizhe Ali, the film is about the incomprehension and helplessness that accompany despair in life.

Hina (Beena Sarwar, 2004, DV, 11 mins)
Seventeen-year old Hina is the youngest and the first girl in her family to complete her education and contemplate a career. Hina is the exception in a country where one in two Pakistani girls are still illiterate.

Hina 2004

Tabdeeli (Babar Shaikh, 2004, DV, 9mins)
There is an abiding image in our folklore of a child lost in a carnival. The city - in this case, Karachi - is also a carnival for the child who resides in each one of us. The imagery is illustrated using Urdu poetry of Akhtar-ul-Eeman and Noon Meem Rashid.

On a Razor's Edge (Sharmeen Obaid, 2004, DV, 24 mins)
Reporter Sharmeen Obaid journeys across her native Pakistan to gauge people's feelings regarding the crackdown on domestic terrorism and the efforts to secure peace with India.

Untitled (Shalalae Jamil, 2003, DV, 3 mins)
A young muslim woman pays tribute to what she considers to be 'True Islamic faith' simultaneously calling into question her own oscillating and contradictory views on the faith.

Death in the Garden of Paradise (Nurjahan Akhlaq, 2004, Beta SP, 21 mins)
Nurjahan Akhlaq's haunting debut is an elegy for  her painter father, Zahoor-ul-Akhlaq and dancer sister, Jahanara Akhlaq.

Death in the Garden of Paradise 2004

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Sunday, May 1, 2005 at 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Jazbah at the Seattle Poetry Festival at the Hugo House, 1634 Eleventh Avenue, Seattle. Phone: 206-322-7030. Tickets $10 for the entire day of events. F or information about purchasing tickets online and the full Seattle Poetry Festival schedule visti: http://www.poetryfestival.org/spf05_sched.php.

Jazbah event featuring poets Negin Almassi, Maged Zaher, and Suheir Hammd (Sponsored by HEDGEBROOK).

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Wednesday, May 04, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by Jazbah

Journalist and author, Asra Nomani, reads from her new book Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam at Elliot Bay Book Co. in Seattle's Pioneer Square.

 

 

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January 24, 2005
Cosponsored by Jazbah:
Author of Madras on Rainy Days, Samina Ali, reads at Elliot Bay Book Co. 7:30 p.m. Co-sponsored by Jazbah and Chaya.

Born in Hyderabad, raised in India and the U.S., residing now in California (with an MFA in Oregon along the way) is debut novelist Samina Ali. First published a year ago, Madras on Rainy Days (new in paper, Picador) is the story of a young Indian-American Muslim woman caught between countries and traditions as she seeks to make her way into the world.

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