(No) Memory of War and Violence: Conference Series on 1971 War Cancelled.
By: Zoha Fareed Chishti ‘23, Aiza Nadeem ‘24, and Zainaab Basil ‘24 Towards the end of the day, on the 20th of March, the LUMS community received an email from the Dean’s Office MGSHSS notifying the cancellation of the much-anticipated conference series “War, Violence, and Memory: Commemorating 50 Years of the 1971 War.” The email stated that the cancellation was a result of “unavoidable circumstances.” The conference series was to…
Zoom: A Mirror Into Body Dysmorphic Disorder
By Hajrah Yousaf TW: Body Dysmorphic Disorder Hashim describes it as being hypnotized. As much as he wants to stop looking into a warped version of himself in the mirror, he just can’t stop. No matter how exhausted he gets (and exhaustion is always a given), he can’t look away. The vision in the mirror is a snake charmer, and boy is Hashim charmed. No, “charmed is the wrong word,”…