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Lovely Boston wild flowers, cheering up my morning

Lovely Boston wild flowers, cheering up my morning

Hey Everyone in the Greater Boston area: please co

Hey Everyone in the Greater Boston area: please come to this event I am curating and performing in - this Sunday 6/9, 1:30-3pm at Cambridge Public Library!!! ❤️

Wow, New Mexico!! you blow my mind...what an amaz

Wow, New Mexico!!
you blow my mind...what an amazing experience to see for the first time these Native American communities like Taos Pueblo with multi-storey adobe buildings that have been continuously inhabited for over a 1000 years! ...thats the first layer of rich culture there, then there's the Spanish colonial heritage, and of course lastly the Anglo-American layer. So happy to be here....(1 of many in this series 😊)

My Doodle of the Day….”Three things they canno

My Doodle of the Day….”Three things they cannot kill in us: Shair, Sur, Mizaah” …Harris Khalique in Islamabad thanks for this articulation that so many of us intuitively feel about the arts in our beloved country…became the three words in the sketch, meaning ‘Poetry, Music and Humour …as expressions’

Meeting Laura Weinstein, Curator of Islamic and So

Meeting Laura Weinstein, Curator of Islamic and South Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, is always a pleasure!

Exciting meeting with Harvard University Professor

Exciting meeting with Harvard University Professor Rahul Mehrotra at the Graduate School of Design! Lovely to be gifting each other our books on architecture, conservation, urban design…he’s such a legend

Meeting with Curator at the ICA Boston (Institute

Meeting with Curator at the ICA Boston (Institute of Contemporary Art) Jeffrey De Blois…wonderful discussions around art and curating surrounded by the recent Igshaan Adams installation Lynloop…truly inspiring! Also saw the amazing show by F Baez here…

Feeling on top of the …moon! Got to see the amaz

Feeling on top of the …moon! Got to see the amazing Laurie Anderson’s Virtual Reality immersive environments To The Moon and Chalkroom at the Mass MOCA (museum of contemporary art)… can’t believe I’ve been a fan of this multimedia artist since the late 80s and she’s still experimenting, innovating, social-commenting…Hope for us All!

At the Raqib Shaw exhibit Ballads of East and West

At the Raqib Shaw exhibit Ballads of East and West at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston…crazy grandeur, skill and detail on exhibit here!!!

April was National Poetry Month! What a joy and ho

April was National Poetry Month! What a joy and honour to be reciting my Urdu and English poems at Williams Chapel, Harvard Divinity School, and at the Arlington Public Library. لبب باب الغیر کھڑے، ارضِ مقدس سے جُدا، آنسوؤں کی غیرت لیئے، اڑے

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Honour to be formally presenting Moneeza Hashmi's

Honour to be formally presenting Moneeza Hashmi's latest book "Kuch Dil Nay Kaha", a collection of correspondence between her father Faiz Ahmed Faiz, the poet, and herself, to frm President Pakistan Association of Greater Boston, Mr Siraj Khan, a great patron and promoter of South Asian art in the US.

Earth Day digital art “Nature Entrapped”, Bost

Earth Day digital art “Nature Entrapped”, Boston, Massachusetts

Enjoying Spring season in historic Beacon Hill, Bo

Enjoying Spring season in historic Beacon Hill, Boston 🌸 …During National Poetry Month, it’s nice to know this was the abode of Robert Frost and Sylvia Plath at some point..!

Wonderful and powerful cultural experience…”In

Wonderful and powerful cultural experience…”Inter-Generational Cultural Commemoration” with the Vietnamese-American Community at Dorchester VietAid Community Ctr today… remembering the sufferings and sacrifices of the older generations through a range of artistic performances, brilliantly curated by my friend artist Ngoc Tran Vu #tranvuarts

Wonderful to be a Thesis Projects Reviewer with Pr

Wonderful to be a Thesis Projects Reviewer with Professor Anthony Piermarini and other faculty at the Architecture Dept, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston. Also love visiting the campus with all its historic and modern buildings…

It’s still the third day of Eid, but I just coul

It’s still the third day of Eid, but I just couldn’t do the typical cheerful Eid Mubarak card art …instead here’s a cafe napkin doodle “You-Me-They-Silence”/“Tum-Main-Woh-Chup” …. The Muslim tradition has a Hadith saying “Fight Evil with the strength of your hand, but if you lack the power and capacity to do that, then speak out against evil with the strength of your tongue, but if you lack the power and capacity to do that, then at least keep knowing within the depths of your heart, that evil is evil. Do not forget that, so that you preserve the sense of morality and humanity deep within you” (loose translation). May we each fight evil in whatever capacities we can…

A great evening of singing by Prahlad Singh Tipani

A great evening of singing by Prahlad Singh Tipaniya, an Indian folk singer who performs Kabir poetry in the Malwi folk style from Madhya Pradesh, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Kabir was the mystic poet of the Bhakti movement who was claimed by both Hindus and Muslims when it was time to perform his burial rituals. Prahlad jee’s troupe also performed a Qawwali from the Sufi tradition, as a gesture of inter faith solidarity …really lovely!

Lovely to see this painting by Hanif Ramay, Pakist

Lovely to see this painting by Hanif Ramay, Pakistani artist, signed in Urdu script and date numerals circa 1380 of the Hijra calendar (signed 64 years ago) at the ICB Wayland , Massachusetts, with the Arabic “Rabbana aatina fid Dunya hasanatwwun wa fil Akhirati Hasanataww…” He was famous for being “the artist who became a politician”

Wonderful Iftar evening with the Muslim Women City

Wonderful Iftar evening with the Muslim Women City Councillors of Greater Boston, at the Islamic Center of Boston at Wayland. Including with Sumbul Siddiqui, Karachi born former mayor of Cambridge city. Great to meet up with friends and leaders of Pakistani Association of Greater Boston there too: Shehla Gul, President, and Siraj Khan sahib, former president.

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