Ammar Aziz, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Ammar Aziz

Ammar Aziz is a poet and a multi-award winning filmmaker from Lahore,Pakistan. His poetry is published in Wild Court and Muse India, among other literary journals. His films have been screened in over a hundred countries at prestigious film and art festivals. His poems often use personal narratives and fictional interventions in memories to investigate spaces, bodies, objects and mythologies.

Fictional Arts·Literature

Which Person Shall I Burn This Night?

What message did we spurn this night? Whose body did we burn this night? All men in town are godly men. For godliness, I yearn this night. That night they killed my soulfulness. It is my body’s turn this night. This

by Ammar Aziz

Fictional Arts·Literature

Aliyah Daskal Does Not Miss Her Father

Aliyah Daskal Painting- Acrylic on Paper by Ammar Aziz Aliyah Daskal has a strange memory of a synagogue In one of the narrowest streets of old Lahore: The Star of David engraved on a brick wall And a pipal

by Ammar Aziz

Fictional Arts·Literature

Moobs

Men always laughedAbout my slightly overgrown breasts: ‘Boys are not supposed to haveThese things!’This made me a bit of a hunchback. Stiff walk, rounded shoulders, hiding ‘things’, beneath my loose shirt, I was scared of becoming a womanAs a preteen. Why

by Ammar Aziz

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