Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Saad Khan
Saad Khan

207 Followers

Home

About

Aug 14, 2019

Pitcher and Dust: Growing up Lower Class in Garhi Shahu, Lahore

When I was little my father cried watching a TV drama “Matti aur Mashkeeza” (Pitcher and Dust) about an old couple whose job was to water the searing dusty streets of Peshawar every morning. This was before streets went concrete. Gallons of water in a camel skin sack would hang…

Poverty

17 min read

Pitcher and Dust: Growing up Lower Class in Garhi Shahu, Lahore
Pitcher and Dust: Growing up Lower Class in Garhi Shahu, Lahore
Poverty

17 min read


Sep 25, 2017

Qandeel Baloch: The Making and Unmaking of a Working Class Heroine

By Saad Khan and Sana Saleem The first time Qandeel Baloch appeared on our Facebook newsfeed, she was casually peering into the camera, adjusting the frame as she dabbed back her hair and asked the man behind the camera…

Pakistan

8 min read

Qandeel Baloch: The Making and Unmaking of a Working Class Heroine
Qandeel Baloch: The Making and Unmaking of a Working Class Heroine
Pakistan

8 min read


Jun 4, 2017

Pakistani Commercial Mujra — The Working Class Women of Pakistani Lowbrow Entertainment

Every weekend, Afreen Khan dances for a crowd of howling men in a theatre in Lahore. She materializes the fantasies of the male audience, and does everything their wives would not: Standing on stage shouting back at hecklers, hurling dirty jokes at unsuspecting audience members, and dancing with traditional machismo…

Pakistan

9 min read

Mujra in Patriarchies: Working Class Women in Lowbrow Pakistani Entertainment
Mujra in Patriarchies: Working Class Women in Lowbrow Pakistani Entertainment
Pakistan

9 min read

Saad Khan

Saad Khan

207 Followers

Documentarian / saadkhan.co / khajistan.com

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech

Teams