{"id":596,"date":"2014-10-27T05:06:38","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T05:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/?p=596"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:23:10","slug":"women-have-carved-themselves-a-space-in-poetry-and-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/habib.edu.pk\/HU-news\/women-have-carved-themselves-a-space-in-poetry-and-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Women have carved themselves a space in poetry and song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong class=\"location\">KARACHI:\u00a0<\/strong>Women have carved themselves a space in poetry and song since time immemorial, said poet Fahmida Riaz at Habib University\u2019s Second Postcolonial Higher Education Conference on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Speaking about \u2018Poetry and Feminist Futures\u2019 at the pi\u00e8ce de r\u00e9sistance of the conference, renowned poets Attiya Dawood, Fahmida Riaz and Kishwar Naheed moved most of their rapt audience to tears.<\/p>\n<h4 align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/781629\/women-have-carved-themselves-a-space-in-poetry-and-song\/\" target=\"_blank\">View complete story here<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI:\u00a0Women have carved themselves a space in poetry and song since time immemorial, said poet Fahmida Riaz at Habib University\u2019s Second Postcolonial Higher Education Conference on Saturday. 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