Mira Hashmi x Salt Arts: Live from Lahore

As part of the Salt Arts #home series, and to mark our 100th production since 2015, we present: Alys & Faiz 🔴 A reading of the letters from Alys Faiz to her husband Faiz Ahmed Faiz, while he was in prison in the the 1950's, by their granddaughter Mira Hashmi. . . Mira writes to us from Lahore: I distinctly remember that on the door to my grandfather’s study in his home in Lahore, there used to hang a little metallic sign that said “Behind every successful man stands a woman telling him that he’s wrong.” Excluding the second part of the statement, in my grandfather’s case, that woman was my grandmother, Alys Faiz. Us children called her Mama, as did many others. She was Faiz’s wife, his partner, his shield, his rock, and, when necessary, the narrowed pair of blue eyes keeping check on his sometimes unwarranted generosity and selflessness. . . In this collaboration with Salt Arts, I will read a few excerpts from Mama’s letters to Nana. I hope you’ll find them as poignant, funny and moving as I do. . . Mira Hashmi x Salt Arts 22.04.2020 10PM FB LIVE @saltarts - Reading (Pakistan Standard Time) . . About Mira: Mira Hashmi lives and works in Lahore. A graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, she has been teaching the discipline of Film Studies since 1998, and is currently Assistant Professor at the Lahore School of Economics. Her first book, Gulzar’s Ijaazat: Insights into the Film, was published in 2019. #mirahashmi #alysandfaiz #faizahmedfaiz #saltarts #lockdown #letters #southasia #lahore #pakistan