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Press Release: Women and Writing Session 3 | Rethinking Writing

23rd August 2019 | Lahore. On August 23rd, 2019 Lahore Education and Research Network (LEARN) conducted the third session of their ‘Rethinking Writing’ Initiative in association with Olomopolo media in Lahore. The session aimed to focus the particular challenges faced by women as writers and why it is important for them to continue to write and reclaim their space nevertheless. The driving question behind the session was whether writing was a means to counteract erasure and if so, how can women continue contributing their voice to their issues for their cause? The panel consisted of, Ms. Sana Munir (author of ‘Unfettered Wings’), Ms. Shabana Mahfooz (freelance Journalist, writer and trainer), Ms. Nasira Zuberi (Urdu Poet and Media Person), Ms. Sana Asif Dar (BBC Urdu Journalist), Ms. Sabahat Zakariya (Journalist/Feminustani) and Ms. Naima Rashid (Author/Translator). In this way, the panel was composed of senior and junior writers, poetess, translators, journalists and…

Press Release – Women in Law Islamabad Chapter Launch | 7th July 2019

The fifth session in the ‘women in law dialogue series’, titled ‘from access to advancement: enhancing women’s representation in law’ was conducted by Lahore Education and Research Network in Islamabad on 7th July 2019. Women in law dialogue series was launched in Lahore in 2016 with the objective of highlighting the challenges and opportunities faced by female lawyers in the legal profession and to understand and address their barriers to progression in this field. Whilst previous sessions laid the ground for access, equality, inclusion and diversity in the legal profession, session 5 was focused on advancement, progression and representation of women in the field. “We launched the series in 2016 to provide a platform for female lawyers to come together to address their common challenges, however, since then, the series have grown into an initiative on its own and we felt that having talked about access and inclusion, it was…

Press Release: Session 2 #RethinkingWriting – Writers Meet and Greet | 21st June 2019

Press Release: Writers Meet and Greet | 21st June 2019 In furtherance to its campaign titled #RethinkingWriting as an Industry, Lahore Education And Research Network (LEARN), in collaboration with Olomopolo Media, organized its second session - a Writers Meet and Greet on 21st June 2019, Friday at Olomopolo Media, Lahore. The first session was held on 25th April earlier this year. Various budding creative writers, poets, dramatists and other literary figures participated in the session and presented their work in both Urdu and English Language. The session aimed at connecting young writers within the literary circles and sharing opportunities with them in order to promote them as writers.  The session was graced by the presence of renowned journalist and writer Shabana Mehfooz and Poet Ali Mazhar from Ain Adab. Both the guests not only enjoyed the reads by participants but presented their own writings as well.  While explaining the purpose behind…

Press Release #RethinkingWriting Initiative Launch | 25th April 2019

Initiative launched in Lahore to Rethink ‘Writing’ as an Industry To celebrate the world book day 2019, Lahore Education and Research Network (LEARN) in association with Olomopolo Media launched an initiative to ‘Rethink Writing as an Industry’ with a panel discussion in Lahore on Thursday, April 25, 2019. The discussion aimed to focus on the challenges faced by writers and publishing houses in Pakistan and attempted to address the important question of what the stakeholders both, within the government and from the business and trade community could do in order to promote it duly as an industry. “We must ask ourselves if Pakistan is losing out on an entire industry and revenue by not investing in its writers and therefore also losing out from capitalizing on related industries such as showbiz?” said Nida Usman Chaudhary, founder of LEARN. “The west and Bollywood have both been able to gain a lot…