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Ameena Saiyid recently retired after 30 years as managing director of Oxford University Press (OUP) in Pakistan. In 2005, she became the first Pakistani woman to be awarded the Order of the British Empire for her services to democracy, women’s rights, education, intellectual property rights and Anglo-Pakistan relations. In February 2013, she was conferred the prestigious French award of Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters for her work in promoting literary culture and in 2018 she was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan for contribution to education and courage in publishing. She is also the founder of the Karachi and Islamabad Literature Festivals and the Founder and Director of Adab Festival Pakistan
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AMEENA SAIYID OBE Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Sitara-e-Imtiaz
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Born and raised in Lahore, Moni Mohsin is an author and freelance journalist now based in London. Her novels include the prizewinning The End of Innocence and Tender Hooks. Her best-selling collection of satirical columns The Diary of a Social Butterfly and Return of the Butterfly are based on her long-running column for The Friday Times. Her writing has also appeared in The Times, The Guardian and the Economist among other publications
Author and Columnist
MONI MOHSIN
Sadia Quraeshi Shepard is a writer and documentary filmmaker. The author of The Girl from Foreign: A Memoir (The Penguin Press), Shepard’s writing has appeared in Guernica, The Washington Post, Vogue India and The New York Times, among other publications. Her credits as a producer include The September Issue, (A&E Films), The Education of Mohammad Hussein (HBO) and The Other Half of Tomorrow (Margaret Mead Film Festival, Opening Night Selection). She teaches at Wesleyan University and lives with her family in New York City
Author and Filmmaker
SADIA QURAESHI SHEPARD
Muneeza Shamsie is a literary journalist, award-winning anthologist and author of a literary history, Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English. She is Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature and serves on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies as well as the Advisory Boards of The Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Bengal Lights and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She was also Regional Chairperson (Eurasia) of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, 2010, 2011. She writes regularly for Dawn, Newsline and Newsweek Pakistan
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