A wife, mother, painter and avid footballer, Sofia Bilgrami is now set to take center stage as a designer...
Bilgrami introduced her first collection via social media, titled Timeless Collections, which has been photographed by Zara Tareen and partially modeled by Frieha Altaf's daughter, Parisheh James...
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JOURNALIST Anita Anand’s account of the hitherto unknown life of Princess Sophia, (1876-1948), the fifth child of deposed Maharajah Duleep Singh, is a commendable debut...
Although she has primarily been concerned with the radio and television sectors, in this work, Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, Anand displays a remarkably accomplished grasp over historical research and methodology...
ISTANBUL: Thousands of Muslim worshippers descended Saturday on Istanbul's world famous Hagia Sophia, the towering former Byzantine church that is now a museum, to demand the right to pray there, Turkish media reported...
“Let the chains break, open Hagia Sophia,” chanted the crowds who gathered on the plaza in front of the museum, according to Turkey's Dogan news agency...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan declared Istanbul's Hagia Sophia open to Muslim worship on Friday after a top court ruled that the building's conversion to a museum by modern Turkey's founding statesman was illegal...
The association which brought the court case, the latest in a 16-year legal battle, said Hagia Sophia was the property of the Ottoman leader who captured the city in 1453 and turned the already 900-year-old Byzantine...
ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday rejected worldwide condemnation over Turkey’s decision to convert the Byzantine-era monument Hagia Sophia back into a mosque, saying it represented his country’s will to use its “sovereign rights”...
A magnet for tourists worldwide, the Hagia Sophia was first constructed as a cathedral in the Christian Byzantine Empire but was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of...
THE reversion of the celebrated Hagia Sophia museum into a mosque is perhaps the most telling sign of the rolling back of Turkey’s secular character and a reflection of the rise of religious nationalism in the country...
Built some 1,500 years ago as an Orthodox Christian cathedral, the Hagia Sophia was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1453...
Is reclaim and revision of heritage the new fashion aesthetic?“It seems to be,” says Noorjehan Bilgrami, a veteran textile designer and artist...
The reincorporation of indigenous designs into contemporary fashion, even if driven by commerce, is, according to Bilgrami, still a welcome transition from the earlier philosophy-driven designers...
The living room of writer Sophia (Bucha) is where the play begins, progresses and climaxes with Zoay (Saeed) being her sole companion throughout the course of the play...
Sophia’s persona is overwhelming and dominates the stage from the moment she walks in...
LAHORE: Anita Anand, author of Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary, and a broadcast journalist, says because of the research for the book, Lahore’s whole map is crystal clear to her and locations of places, including Jail Road and The Mall...
Her book is on Sophia Duleep Singh, granddaughter of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, and she was in Lahore to attend the LLF...
Would Hazrat Umar have turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque?The Church of the Hagia Sophia was built in 537 as the patriarchal cathedral of the imperial capital of Constantinople...
Hagia Sophia’s unique architecture had a strong influence on future Ottoman architecture and on the work of the great Turkish architect Mimar Sinan...
Shahbano Bilgrami’s second novel, Those Children, however, does not fall under that umbrella as her goal is not to represent the Pakistani ideology, but to show how a child who was born abroad would adapt to a city such as Karachi...
Nevertheless, in her attempt to build characters with well-rounded background stories, Bilgrami unravels many conflicts that plague our society today...
The exterior is the first point of contact and Rana’s design has truly succeeded in drawing in the crowd who leave the pavilion mesmerised after an engaging, multi-sensory inner journey, principally curated by Noorjehan Bilgrami, a noted multi-disciplinary artist, curator and educationist best known for her tireless work in reviving traditional crafts of Pakistan...
Bilgrami says the premise was to showcase Pakistan’s hidden...