She Who ‘Picks Fights with the Blowing Wind’: The Productive Fusion of Girlhood and Sisterhood in Pakistani Dramas
Aug 10, 2026
A reflection on the compliant and contrarian ways in which women persist
Irum Iqbal Hussain
Irum Iqbal Hussain is pursuing a doctoral degree in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She has taught courses on MENA and South Asian literatures and cultures. Her research, writing, and teaching focus on Muslim cultures, women's writing, South Asian television and film, Museum Studies, and translation studies. Her poetry and essays have appeared in Pandemonium Journal, Litbreak Magazine, and The Knowledge Forum.