Jihad Against Violence: A One-Act Play

Afzal-Khan, Fawzia; Sharif, Bina

doi:10.1162/dram.2010.54.2.60

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June 01 2010

Jihad Against Violence: A One-Act Play

Fawzia Afzal-Khan,

Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English, and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Montclair State University, NJ. She has published articles on feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and Pakistani politics and culture; has authored two books including A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan (Seagull, 2005); and is editor of two anthologies, including Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Interlink, 2005). Her memoir, Lahore with Love: Growing Up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style, is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press (March 2010). She is a published poet and playwright, as well as a vocalist trained in the North Indian Classical tradition.

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Bina Sharif

Bina Sharif is an award-winning playwright, actress, and director. She has had 24 plays produced in the US, Europe, and Pakistan. She is a Joseph Jefferson Award nominee for acting from Chicago's Goodman Theatre, a poet, and a visual artist. She is an MD from Pakistan with an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. Her new play, A Colony of Artists, premiered on 31 December 2009 at Theater for the New City in New York for a three-week run.

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Fawzia Afzal-Khan

Fawzia Afzal-Khan is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English, and Director of Women's and Gender Studies at Montclair State University, NJ. She has published articles on feminist theory, postcolonial theory, and Pakistani politics and culture; has authored two books including A Critical Stage: The Role of Secular Alternative Theatre in Pakistan (Seagull, 2005); and is editor of two anthologies, including Shattering the Stereotypes: Muslim Women Speak Out (Interlink, 2005). Her memoir, Lahore with Love: Growing Up with Girlfriends Pakistani Style, is forthcoming from Syracuse University Press (March 2010). She is a published poet and playwright, as well as a vocalist trained in the North Indian Classical tradition.

Bina Sharif

Bina Sharif is an award-winning playwright, actress, and director. She has had 24 plays produced in the US, Europe, and Pakistan. She is a Joseph Jefferson Award nominee for acting from Chicago's Goodman Theatre, a poet, and a visual artist. She is an MD from Pakistan with an MPH from Johns Hopkins University. Her new play, A Colony of Artists, premiered on 31 December 2009 at Theater for the New City in New York for a three-week run.

Online ISSN: 1531-4715

Print ISSN: 1054-2043

2010

TDR/The Drama Review (2010) 54 (2 (T206)): 60–69.

https://doi.org/10.1162/dram.2010.54.2.60

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Jihad Against Violence, a collaboration between two Pakistani American women, is a dramatic and poetic depiction of the struggle (emotional, physical, and psychological) against violence of any kind toward women in Pakistani culture.

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