The British Council supported a vibrant collaboration between the Faiz Foundation Trust and the Bradford Literature Festival ...

The British Council supported a vibrant collaboration between the Faiz Foundation Trust (Pakistan) and the Bradford Literature Festival (UK) to co-curate a special Faiz Festival programme as part of ...

In 1941, Faiz married Alys Faiz, a British national and a member of the Communist Party of the United Kingdom. They had two daughters, Salima Hashmi and Muneeza Hashmi.

He and Alys Faiz heard and saw explosions, some perilously close to their office. In retrospect, they considered themselves lucky to have escaped unharmed.

Two collections of Faiz’s poems were published when he was in jail – Zindaa Nama and Dast-i-saba. By the time he was released from the prison, he was a famous poet.

In Urdu Poetry: The Progressive Episode (OUP 2017), author Carlo Coppola tells us about the life of Faiz Ahmed Faiz. A Professor Emeritus of Hindi-Urdu and linguistics at Oakland University, Rochester ...

The poet is present as a self-referential persona. The last long poem, written over the course of two years in the back of different cabs, is a highlight: “Once I was 19/and now I’m 33 … ...

The eldest daughter of the renowned poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his British-born wife Alys Faiz, Salima was a speaker at eShe’s South Asia Union Summit Led by Women held earlier this month, and ...

Alys’ influence on Faiz’s life and poetry is reputed to have been enormous. Moreover, Faiz spent much of the 1950s and 1960s promoting communism in Pakistan.

Also seated on the bench was a middle aged lady, distinctly European. The Pakistani journalist saw her and whispered excitedly in my ear, ``She is Alys Faiz, wife of Faiz Ahmed Faiz!’’ I had ...