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The Mehrgarh poems: واپسی by Hana Ormara

Chowk
Peeling Summer Bruises by Hira Mehar

Avaaz
Island Tongues: The Coexisting Literary Languages of Sri Lanka by Gaya Nagahawatta, Hammad Rind

Current issue
Sarah Ahmad on Land, Memory and What We Inherit by Eman Farhan

Chowk
Maybe next Sunday, I’ll write a longer haibun by Hamza Ahmad Khan

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Love Love by Sobhia Kamal

Current issue
Bilingual Haiku / زو لسانی ہائیکو / Zu-lisani Haiku: #2 by Saad Ali

Poetry | Apartment Life by Aneeqa Wattoo

Books | Paying Attention to the Past and the Present by Maham Farhan

Fiction | مروان by Ghassan Kanafani, translated into Urdu by Hammad Rind

Essay | Lahore Between Two Trains: Then and Now by Faizan Ahmad

Conversation | New Rules for Living: A Conversation Between Mahreen Sohail & Raaza Jamshed 

Fiction | God Story by Irta Usman

ISSUE 9 COVER

Included in this issue

Miracle Baby Jaani by Saba Khaliq ||
“non-lethal” by Fatima Zahra ||
عکسِ خیال by Asia Aslam ||
Dreaming an Almost Impossible Dream by Anees Adam ||
Chained to the Everyday by Nawal Awan ||
Ibn-e-Safi’s Quiet Revolution by Noor ul Ain

Avaaz . آواز
by Hammad Rind

Island Tongues: The Coexisting Literary Languages of Sri Lanka
جزیرے کی زبانیں: سری لنکا کی ادبی آوازیں
— guest editor, Gaya Nagahawatta

Cymraeg/Welsh: Against All Odds
قمبری/ویلش: ایک زبان سو رکاوٹیں

Chowk . چوک
2026: Transformations
۲۰۲۶: تبدیلیاں

Poetry, October 2026
Peeling Summer Bruises by Hira Mehar

Poetry, September 2026
a lesson in my language
by Zainab Haroon

Art, August 2026
Inquiry: From Mapping Light to Memory
by Asavir Nadeem

Art, August 2026
CyberLahore
by Hazem Asif

Essay, July 2026
Don’t Light Up the Dark
by Khadeeja Bilqees

artwork by Maliha Hasan

Maliha Hasan and Aima Tariq speak with editors Bareerah Ghani and Sidra Hassan
Watch the conversation here

Poetic Renditions

Urdu to English

غزل ۔ ناصر کاظمی
Mumtaz Mohiuddin, Kate Roy, Abdul Sabur Kidwai, Fuzaila Khan, Farhan Farooq Wani, Parul Behl, Amna Ali Khan, Ali Arif, Siddiqua Fatima Virji, and Shah Faisal Mushtaq.
Guest edited by Naima Rashid.

Gujarati to English

મળે ન મળે – આદિલ મન્સૂરી 
Male Na Male – Adil Mansuri
Rohee Dholakia and Meena Desai. Edited by Saniyah Salman.

Punjabi to English

ٹبہ ٹویا اک برابر ۔ تجمل کلیم
Jasdeep Singh and Ayesha Waheed. Edited by Mahin Zia.

Urdu to English

لاہور کی ایک سنیک بار کے نام ۔ سرمد صہبائی
Bilal Tanweer, Sarmad Sehbai, and Sherdil Awais Rashid. Guest edited by Bilal Tanweer.

 

English to Urdu

Making a Fist – Naomi Shihab Nye
Sukhan, Iqra Khan, Taran Khan, and Asad Hussain. Edited by Iraj Toosy.

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