Qurrat ul ain Raza Abbas

Qurrat ul ain Raza is a Pakistani writer whose work explores shame, collective amnesia, and matrilineal histories. A Tin House Fellow and recipient of the Melanie Hook Rice Award in Nonfiction, her current project is a memoir tracing Partitioned women, Sufis, and her intimate connection to Lal.
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  • Koh-e-Zaat

    Community Anthologies
    “In Arabic, there are twelve gradations of friendship. I think of them often as I watch the layered shadows of shoulders—the mountains: powder pale cyan, sky wash sapphire, and then verdigris blending into a ravenous indigo. Each hue a threshold, each ridge a rung in an ancient ascent.”
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