Renowned Urdu scholar, author and translator CM Naim died at age 89 on Wednesday in Chicago, his family has told the press. Naim’s love for Urdu literature was evident in the nearly 60 years he dedicated to painstakingly restore the language he feared was falling out of favour for good in the subcontinent. Born in…
Actor and television host Ahsan Khan spoke about the importance of raising daughters with strength and independence. In an interview with FUCHSIA Magazine, Khan shared his perspective as a father and reflected on the different challenges that sons and daughters face while growing up, especially in Pakistan’s cultural context. He began by observing that “many…
Actor Mariyam Nafees recently opened up about her journey through pregnancy and early motherhood on a local channel’s morning show, appearing alongside her husband, filmmaker Amaan Ahmed. “When I told my mother [I was expecting], the first thing she urged me to do was to not treat it like an illness and just carry on…
In the highly anticipated new Superman, which stars David Corenswet in the title role, the Man of Steel first appears lying bloodied and bruised in an Arctic wasteland, reports DW. “We do have a battered Superman in the beginning. That is our country,” director James Gunn said at a press event following the release of…
More than 90 per cent of X’s (formerly Twitter) Community Notes – a crowd-sourced verification system popularised by Elon Musk’s platform – are never published, a study said on Wednesday, highlighting major limits in its effectiveness as a debunking tool, reported AFP. The study by the Digital Democracy Institute of the Americas (DDIA), which analysed…
BRATISLAVA: The Slovakia festival due to welcome Kanye West next week has called off the event following the uproar over the US rapper’s May release of a song glorifying Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Before the July 20 gig was cancelled, Bratislava’s Rubicon hip hop festival was set to be West’s only confirmed live performance in…
PARIS: The original bag custom-made for actress Jane Birkin – which went on to inspire one of the most iconic accessories in modern fashion history – sold for a record 8.6 million ($10.04 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in Paris on Thursday. According to fashion lore, the first Birkin bag was created after the Franco-British…
LOS ANGELES: A24 and CMC Pictures are teaming up to bring an English-language version of the globally successful Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 to theatres in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on August 22, the companies said on Wednesday. The animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2 overtook Pixar’s Inside Out 2 in February…
WASHINGTON: Mattel has launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes in a bid to foster a greater sense of inclusion and empathy among children, a company vice-president said Tuesday. The new Barbie has been designed in partnership with the global type 1 diabetes not-for-profit Breakthrough T1D. “Introducing a Barbie doll with type 1…
As well as being optimistic about the future of his war-ravaged country, Rami Al Ali has other reasons to be upbeat: he is about to become the first Syrian fashion designer to show his work at Paris Haute Couture Week. The invitation to appear on the world’s most prestigious fashion stage is a huge endorsement…
