Dur e Aziz Amna
Fiction
"You Get What is Yours," October 2021
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Winner of the 2021 Salam Award
"Cafe May," Catapult, August 2021
"A Cold Heart," Himal Southasian, January 2020
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Shortlisted for the 2019 Himal Southasian Short Story Competition
"Asma," London Magazine, April 2018
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2017 London Magazine Short Story Competition, 2nd Place
Personal Essay
"After Etel Adnan," Acacia, October 2024
"The Joy of Influence," Lithub, August 2022
"Inheritance," Wasafiri, August 2022
"Reflections in Ramzan," Aleph Review, April 2022
"The Many Homes of My Mother," Al Jazeera, September 2021
"Writing Into and Out of My Long-Distance Grief," New York Times, December 2020
"Your Tongue is Still Yours," Financial Times, November 2019
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2019 Financial Times / Bodley Head Essay Prize Winner (e-book link)
"House on Mayo Road," Longreads, November 2018
"American Smile," The Offing, June 2018
Food & Culture
"Dry-roasting nostalgia," Vittles, October 2023
"The Ismaili Muslims of Pakistan," The Juggernaut, April 2020
"Finding South Asia on the Swahili Coast," The Juggernaut, October 2019
"Good Woman, Bad Woman," The Juggernaut, August 2019
"Forget white bloggers from Poland. How much do Pakistanis know about domestic tourism?" Dawn, May 2019
"Pakistan's Wedding Industrial Complex," Dawn, April 2019
"Why do women have to sit in family halls in restaurants?" Dawn, March 2019
"The Ramadan Drummer of Coney Island," Roads & Kingdoms, June 2017
"The Best Little Lunch Dive in Islamabad," Roads & Kingdoms, May 2017
"From Portugal to the Ironbound," Roads & Kingdoms, March 2017
Travel
Sri Lanka: "Teardrop in the Indian Ocean," The News, March 2019
Myanmar: "At Home in Burma," The News, March 2019
Vietnam: "Vietnam's Heart," The News, March 2019
Cambodia: "In the Land of Angkor Kings," The News, February 2019
Indonesia: "Javanese Days," The News, February 2019
Colombia: "Amethyst Afternoons in Cartagena," The News, April 2018
Portugal: "The Island No One Told You About," The News, April 2018
Book Reviews
"An Ode to Innocence," The News, June 2018
"Speaking Truth to Empire," The News, April 2018
Translation
"Yours and Mine," Annual of Urdu Studies Volume 28, 2013
Literary Criticism
"Requiem: Agha Shahid Ali’s Last Canzone," Mad Heart Be Brave, University of Michigan Press, 2017
"Postcolonial London," Columbia Journal of Literary Criticism Volume XIII, Spring 2015