Manahil Tahira


Manahil Tahira

Manahil Tahira is a Karachi-based journalist and writer whose work moves between fiction and nonfiction, tracing the intersections of bodies, spaces, visuality and technology. Formerly desk head of Lifestyle at The Express Tribune, their creative writing has appeared in Arzu Anthology, Fahmidan Journal, Lakeer, and is forthcoming in The Aleph Review (2025). They are also a Non-Fiction Editor at South Asian Avant-Garde (SAAG) magazine.

All That Goes West

Manahil Tahira

Mar 06, 2026

This Is Where the Serpent Lives strives for scope but reduces class and gender to the familiar

The Irreverent Humour of Rangeela

Manahil Tahira

Oct 20, 2025

Manahil Tahira explores how Pakistani cinema’s quintessential comedian traded timing and set up for embodiment and sheer unpredictability