Mudassar Javed, Author at FemAsia Magazine

Mudassar Javed

Mudassar Javed Baryar is a PhD scholar in English Literature at The University of Faisalabad and an educator based in Pakistan. His research interests include contemporary fiction, environmental narratives, gender studies, and postcolonial theory. He regularly writes academic articles, literary criticism, and cultural commentary.

Fictional Arts

Lives in the Heat- Ordinary Pakistanis in Aamina Ahmad’s July Sun

In 2022, Aamina Ahmad’s debut novel The Return of Faraz Ali announced the arrival of a significant new voice in Pakistani English literature, one attuned to the moral complexities of power, the quiet violence of patriarchy, and the dignity of ordinary lives lived on

by Mudassar Javed

Book Reviews·Fictional Arts

Maha Khan Phillips – Ambitious Noir of Karachi

A thriller doesn’t normally start in a museum storeroom, with fluorescent lights having trouble keeping the lights up and a curator thinking in layers the way archaeologists do. But The Museum Detective by Maha Khan Phillips insists that the most dangerous crimes

by Mudassar Javed

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Maha Khan Phillips – Ambitious Noir of Karachi