Bareeha Fatima

[Sarah Ilyas @_SarahIlyas]

Na Naya Na Purana Hamara Pakistan

Sounds good… No?

Now allow me to ask a question… Where’s our fellow Mudassir Naaru and all others?

When will they come back?

This could be a little step towards building “Hamara Pakistan”

[Harris Gondal @dontharrisme]

Safia Hayat’s poem ‘Athri Tay Baghi Aurat’ x an excerpt from Gloria Anzaldua’s essay ‘Speaking in Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers.’

[Ananya Jahanara Kabir FBA @ananya_jahanara]

Fantastic new journal with @CambridgeCore now accepting articles!! Edited by Matthew A. Cook, North Carolina Central University, USA
Kamran Ali, UT Austin, USA
Michel Boivin, CNRS-CEIAS, France
Amina Yaqin, University of Exeter, UK

[* @desi_disco]

'your father was fluent in four languages. you're illiterate in the tongues of your father.'

Partition by Fatimah Asghar.

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

@DeTrop_ This is so beautiful. 💜

[Aberdeen UCU @aberdeen_ucu]

Another day on strike, another great turn out by our @aberdeen_ucu members, standing strong & demanding a better offer from UCEA #ucuRISING

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

Sachal turns 5 today. He has spent another year going to court hearings, meetings with govt officials & protests, but the State has repeatedly failed to offer him the gift of truth, let alone hope & justice.

If you find a moment today, please raise your voice to #FindNaaruAlive

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

In almost all my conversations with #MudassarNaaru before his disappearance, he would mention that he is on this incredible journey of curiosity inspired by Sachal. He would say he feels like he's rediscovering & relearning everything he knows about the world. 1/n

[Golnaz Esfandiari @GEsfandiari]

“Hope will not be executed” reads protest sign at the university of Tehran.

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

@_Iusta I was listening to this particular mushaira just last night and thinking similar things... Wonderfully surreal to come across your thread.

[Salaar Khan @Brainmasalaar]

The world gets to tell its stories. Time and again, we hear them to the exclusion of our own. Give our stories a chance, too. They remain real and they remain ours - even if you try to kill them before they are told.
#ReleaseJoyland

[Amro Ali @_amroali]

Albert Camus wrote a letter to an estranged German friend in 1943: “I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don’t want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive.”

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

And it's only by remembering and repeating these stories that we 'refuse to disappear.'

The case is not closed. Not until we #FindNaaruAlive, not until they #ReleaseAllMissingPersons, not until they #EndEnforcedDisappearnces and not until those responsible are held accountable.

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

Journalist/Poet #MudassarNaaru disappeared on 20 Aug 2018. His son, Sachal, was 6 months old at the time. In one of our conversations in the months that followed, his wife #SadafChugtai said: "I hope Naaru returns before Sachal notices his absence..."

[Bareeha Fatima @bfkazmi]

#MissingPersons are not mere statistics. They are real people who have real lives, just like yours and mine, and they have families & friends who are waiting for them. These are glimpses of the story of just one family but there are thousands more of these families in Pakistan.