Fauzia Minallah
Fauzia Minallah, a Pakistani artist dividing her time between Germany and Pakistan, frequently boards a train to a town of her choice for the day and then rides her bike into that town’s forest, which becomes her personal gallery. The fifty-eight-year-old chooses a tree and then uses a thin fishing wire to hang her installation—a tin foil sculpture she calls “Tin foil mother nature, protecting her tin foil children from massacre and rape.” She has collected the tin foil for over six years, mostly from the wrappings of Turkish doner kebabs, her son’s favorite food. She says, “This toxic aluminium, on organic, beautiful trees, it’s this contrast that interests me a lot. Because we live in a world of contrast, where toxic things are being sold as beauty, and in the process it’s destroying a beautiful mother earth.”
Fauzia MinallahPhoto courtesy of Fauzia Minallah
Fauzia is a sculptor, a painter, a graphic designer, a peacebuilder, and the founder of the Funkor Childart Centre in Islamabad. She has led art and storytelling workshops in such varying locales as London, Stockholm, Austria, Munich, a
Fauzia Minallah
Promoting Diversity through Children’s Books in Pakistan
Fauzia Aziz Minallah
Funkor Childart Center
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Abstract: Militancy has grown to such menacing proportions that it has become a great problem for now reap what we sowed thirty years ago, during the Afgani war, when primers for children carried images of pistols and Kalashnikovs and children were taught ‘J’ is for ‘Jehad’.As a children’s writer I am contributing by producing books for children and young people on Multi culturalism and tolerance.
Key words: militancy, books, mindsets, multi-culturalism.
Pakistan is going through tumultuous times. Growing militancy has worsened the security situation in many parts of the country. Increasing violence coupled with successive governments’ inept educational policies threaten the very existence of ‘education’ in general and ‘girls’ education’ in particular.
Between and , the school-age population in Pakistan doubled, with poor families turning to religious schools (madrassahs) as the only affordable option for their sons’ education. Boys in these schools receive neither proper academic nor technical training, which makes it diffi
Art Review: 'Her Stories on Stone' by Fauzia Minallah
By Barbara Plett
BBC News, Surki Dheri and Islamabad
The homeless are being given water, electricity and a roof
Just over the mountains from Pakistan's north-western Swat valley lies Surki Dheri, a village of 10,
Its deputy mayor, Sajjad Ali, is a landowner with a large estate. Tenant farmers work his fields of wheat, maize and tobacco.
But this year he and his brother, Javed Iqbal, have become hosts to unexpected guests: 15 families of refugees - or people - who have fled Pakistan's latest war against the Taliban in Swat and neighbouring districts.
"I was coming home one day and I saw these families, women and children, sitting beside the road," says Mr Iqbal. "I brought them here. They were in need."
The newly homeless Pakistanis get food from the UN, but Mr Iqbal and Mr Ali provide everything else - water, electricity, and a roof.
Nor do they expect them to leave anytime soon. The brothers have begun building an extension to their guesthouse.
Solidarity
The influx of displaced people has swelled the village population by a third.
This is traditional Pashtun hospitality, which can never turn away "a guest".
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) on Wednesday hosted a new landscape art exhibition featuring works created by masters and modern masters from National Art Gallery’s permanent collection including some that have never been seen before.
The new show is called Scenic Pakistan. The display included works created by artists like A.R. Nagori, Ahmed Habib, Anjum Ayub Khan, Aqeel Solangi, Aslam Minhas, Bashir Mirza, Colin David, Ghalib Baqir, Ghazanfar Ali, Ghulam Rasul, Masood A. Khan,Moyene Najmi, Mukhtar Ahmed, Iqbal Ahmed, Misbahuddin Qazi, Mehboob Ali, Nazir Ahmed, Nusratji, Khalid Iqbal, Rashid Khan, Shakir Ali, S Safdar, Ustad Allah Bux, Zubeida Javed, Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi, Zulqarnain Haider and Zubeida Agha.
According to organisers of the show, the works show how big of a tool visual art can be not only for the present time but for the purpose of recording history and culture as well. This show was a splendid opportunity to understand Pakistan’s landscape and how each region varied from the other.
Each artist has a different practice along with their distinct visual language projected in their work, they added.
Misbahuddin Qazi and Fauzia Minallah i
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