A book named joy the most beautiful poems of women from the Islamic world, Selected, translated into German and with an introduction by Annemarie Schimmel. This volume in the Anne Marie Schimmel until shortly before her death worked, gathered some 100 poems, which they from the Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Uzbek, Urdu and Sindhi has translated. The spectrum ranges from Fatima, the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed, to the fascinating poetry of Muslim women today. Including ATTIA DAWOOD’s poem HAND IN HAND ……….. more

Poetry for Attiya seems to consist in fighting for a cause. A reader of poetry may have his doubts about this sort of poetry. Even then one may find it difficult to dismiss it as sheer propaganda or as
statemental poetry. What attracts us here is a ring of sincerity and a feminine zeal for a cause. The angry wounded woman imagines
herself standing alone in Karbala with a determination to fight to the last against the army of Yazid arrayed
against her. .........more
- Intizar Hussain
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“Those who are writing about similar issues are illustrating reality, but they have not seen or experienced the problems; they can only imagine and that, and that is the difference. Whatever I write is based on truth. I am depicting reality as I meet the characters portrayed in each of these plays every day” says Attiya Dawood

Viewing issues through a gender kaleidoscope reflects a whole new perspective. It is this social discourse that constitutes Hum TV’s nine-play serial called Aseer Shahzadi written by poet Attiya Dawood where she lays bare many of the cruelties imposed on women with the sanction of society and religion.
Zofeen T. Ebrahim/DAWN IMAGES
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ATTIYA DAWOOD’s Autobiography “AEENE KE SAMNE” in Urdu published by OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS PAKISTAN is NOW AVAILABLE at OUP outlets.
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One Family Divided
Inside the sunny flat where Attiya Dawood lives with her family in Karachi's trendy Zamzama district, the TV is on full blast. Her two young daughters are ... ....more
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Attiya Dawood is a voice from the goths and villages of rural Sindh. It is a voice of pain and harrowing anguish. As a rural Sindhi woman she finds deprivation everywhere: she faces oppression piled on oppression. As a woman, oppression of women by men, as a Third World woman, oppression and exploitation by the advanced capitalist countries. As a rural woman she is marginalised in favour of the voice of the first person singular – I, but they are not autobiographical the events written about are not necessarilly drawn from her own life. The poems may be considered a form of dramatic monologue in which she assumes the voice and persona of a suffering woman and articulates the anguish arising out of some concrete situation. .......more
-Haroon Siddique
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