Abdul Hameed (b. 1928) was a popular Urdu fiction writer from Lahore, Pakistan who wrote over 200 books.
Hameed was born in 1928 in Amritsar British India. He passed his secondary education in Amritsar. He migrated to Pakistan after partition and passed intermediate in Pakistan as a private candidate and join Radio Pakistan as assistant script editor. After working some year for Radio Pakistan he joined Voice of America.
Manzil's first collection of short stories received popular acclaim and made him a recognized romantic short story writer. Apart from writing short stories and novels he wrote columns for national news papers. He also wrote for radio and television.
He has written more than 200 books. Urdu She'r Ki Dastan, Urdu Nasr ki Dastan
Zeenat Hisam is an independent writer-researcher and translator from Pakistan. Over the span of her career, she has written extensively on labour, gender and social development issues. She undertook evaluation of projects for a number of not-for-profit organisations working on community infrastructure development (2023), urban development (2022), women and child healthcare; women’s empowerment; women prisoners; women and crisis management in the Karachi violence; and the campaign against honour killings in the 2000s and 1990s.Her published works include a number of research reports, a couple of books, articles, book reviews, travelogues, personal essays and literary translations.
