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Breakfast Speakers 2021

  • Breakfast Meeting January 16, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting February 20, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting March 20, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting April 17, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting May 15, 2021
  • Breakfast Meeting June 19, 2021
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June19 Zoom Breakfast Meeting

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is Professor of English, University Distinguished Scholar, and former Director of Women and Gender Studies (now called Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies) at Montclair State University. Afzal-Khan received her BA from Kinnaird College for Women, Lahore, Pakistan, and her MA and PhD in English Literature from Tufts University, Ma.
She is a cultural materialist who works at the intersection of Feminist Theory, Cultural and Performance Studies, and Postcolonial Studies. She created and teaches the first course on writings by and about Muslim Women at MSU, as well as an Honors course in Muslim Pop Culture, and has published extensively on this topic. She is author of 6 books, her latest a monograph entitled Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through its Women Singers, published by Oxford University Press in 2020. She is also author of a controversial memoir entitled Lahore With Love; Growing Up With Girlfriends Pakistani-Style (Syracuse University Press 2010; rep Insanity Ink 2010; can be ordered at Amazon). She is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch and Express Tribune, and a published poet and playwright.
She is a Contributing Editor to TDR (The Drama Review) and serves on the Advisory Board of SAR (the South Asian Review), and on the Editorial Board of Arab Stages.
She is also a trained vocalist in the North Indian Classical tradition. Her music videos exploring themes of gender, religion, class, set in Pakistan, can be viewed on youtube (FAK Lahore, FAK Payal, FAK Smokescreen, FAK Sacrifice)her latest a project called Faqeera to be released Jan 1, 2019.
She was a founding member of the experimental theatre collective Compagnie Faim de Siecle, with whom she toured and performed in Europe and N America for a decade from 1999-2005.
Her current research work is focused on Pakistani Popular Culture, with a focus on Pakistani Female Singers. She won a National Endowment of the Humanities grant in 2011 to make a trailer for a documentary on this subject, called “From the Melody Queen to the Muslim Madonna: Pakistani Female Singers 1947-Present” (now renamed: Siren Song: Women Singers of Pakistan).
She is winner of a Fulbright Specialist fellowship AY 2015-2020, lecturing at various universities in Pakistan. She has also served as Visiting Professor of the Arts at NYU in Abu Dhabi in spring 2016 and for the AY 2018-19.

 

2020 Short Story Contest Results

The Third Annual Joseph Smrdelj Short Story Contest for 2020 is now complete. Our judge, Prof Leonard Rosmarin announced the winners at our Zoom Breakfast Meeting on December 12, 2020.  

Congratulations to the winners and to all of those that entered the contest. Prof Rosmarin was impressed with all of the short stories and it was difficult to select winners.

First       Ann Birch

Second   Heather Dick

Third      Michael Croucher

 

Thelma Wheatley Launches New Novel

WEN member Thelma Wheatley has launched a new novel titled “Tamarind Sky”. The virtual launch took place on October 22 of this year. There is a youtube link below of her reading a chapter from this book.

If you like, you can watch and listen to Thelma Wheatley read Chapter 2 from her new book, TAMARIND SKY.

In this chapter (which is short) Selena , a white British girl living in Toronto takes her new fiancee, a dark-skinned Sri Lankan called Aidan, home to Wales to get married in her home town, Cardiff. Selena expects her mother to be happy and welcoming to Aidan, but Mother has different ideas. . .

Click here for the youtube link: https://youtu.be/SgJQRvdsBwM .

Is the Short Story Dead?

The following is a link to a panel discussion on “Is the Short Story Dead?” hosted by Shane Joseph. WEN member Barb Nobel was one of the panellists.

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The winners of our 2020 Short Story Contest are Ann Birch, Heather Dick and Michael Croucher

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