Muneeza Shamsie is the author of a literary history Hybrid Tapestries: The Development of Pakistani Literature in English (2017). She is a co-editor of the online Literary Encyclopedia’s South Asia volumes. She received the Gold IPPY and the 2008 Bronze Foreword prizes in the United States for the Feminist Press edition of her anthology And the World Changed: Contemporary Stories by Pakistani Women (2008, Women Unlimited 2005). She is the Bibliographic Representative (Pakistan) for The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, serves on several international advisory boards including The Journal of Postcolonial Writing and the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. She served as a jury member for the latter and for several other literary awards in Pakistan, including The Patras Bokhari Award, and was the regional chair Eurasia of the Commonwealth Writers Prize 2009 and 2010. She lives in Karachi and writes for Dawn and Newsweek Pakistan. Email: mshamsie [at] gmail.com Photo by Ayesha Vellani
by Muneeza Shamsie This year, 26 January marks the fifth death anniversary, of Sahabzada M. Yaqub-Khan (1920-2016), my uncle. To me it seems as if it was yesterday. He was my mother’s youngest brother and her only sibling in Pakistan. The bond between them was so close that I cannot remember a time, when he…