Yasmeen Hameed

Yasmeen Hameed has over twenty-five years of experience in the fields of education, literature and art. She is presently working as 'Writer in Residence' at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is responsible for designing and teaching courses in Urdu literature. She has authored four books of poetry in Urdu which were collectively published under the title Doosri Zindagi (700 pages) in 2007. She is Guest Editor of Pakistani Literature (English), published by the Pakistan Academy...See more

Yasmeen Hameed has over twenty-five years of experience in the fields of education, literature and art. She is presently working as 'Writer in Residence' at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. She is responsible for designing and teaching courses in Urdu literature. She has authored four books of poetry in Urdu which were collectively published under the title Doosri Zindagi (700 pages) in 2007. She is Guest Editor of Pakistani Literature (English), published by the Pakistan Academy of Letters, Islamabad. She has extensively translated Urdu poetry into English. Through her column called Poetic Justice , which she contributed regularly for three and a half years to the Books & Authors section of The Daily Dawn , she has introduced and translated poets of the post-Iqbal period. Her work has been published by the Oxford University Press and the Women Studies Department of Karachi University as well. See less