Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Pakistan’s unofficial poet laureate, was born almost exactly a hundred years ago, on 13 February 1911, in Sialkot, the hometown he shared with Pakistan’s national poet, ‘Allama’ ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), considered by many to be the most important writer in the German language, said: “Say what you will of its inadequacy, translation remains one of the most import...
It is often thought that there is nothing common between the poetry and art of ‘Allama’ Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938), ‘poet of the East’ and Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984), Pakistan’s poet laureate....
