Nahal Sheikh

Nahal Sheikh, a Lahore-Amsterdam based writer and illustrator, explores Global South narratives of issues of identity, culture and power structures. She is currently completing a research MA in Media at University of Amsterdam.

Productively ‘perverse’: Punjabi films of the 1970s and 1980s as tools of resistance during Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorship

The Urdu word 'fahashi', meaning 'vulgarity' or 'perverse', carries a heavy weight across Southasian societies, sometimes leaving serious imprints on how certain groups of

By Nahal Sheikh

/ 24 May 2022

Productively ‘perverse’: Punjabi films of the 1970s and 1980s as tools of resistance during Zia-ul-Haq’s dictatorship