Dr. Javaria Farooqui was invited as a panelist to the two-day Pakistan Workshop at International Islamic University, Islamabad, part of the UK AHRC 'Muslim Women Popular Genre' project.
Dr Javaria Farooqui was invited as a panelist to the two-day Pakistan Workshop, organized at International Islamic University, Islamabad as part of the UK’s Arts and Humanities Research Council’s “Muslim Women Popular Genre” project. She talked about the nuanced usage of 'history' in genre fiction and systemic marginalisation of women's popular fiction in Pakistan.