Alvi biography
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Moniza Alvi
Biography
Moniza Alvi was born in Lahore in Pakistan, the daughter of a Pakistani father and an English mother. She moved to England when she was a few months old, and grew up in Hertfordshire. She didn’t revisit Pakistan until after her first book of poems, The Country at My Shoulder, was published.As well as divisions between what she has called “the receding east, the receding west”, her later work also explores the interplay between inner and outer worlds, imagination and reality, physical and spiritual experience. She has written translations or versions of the poetry of the French poet Jules Supervielle, as well as taking on the myth of Europa.
Her poem ‘Europa and the Bull’ imagines the rape of Europa, the Phoenician princess, by Jupiter, the greatest European god – a story that deals
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Moniza Alvi
Moniza Alvi was foaled in Metropolis, Pakistan, came to England when she was a few months old, splendid grew nonflexible in Hatfield. The be aware of she describes in come together recording staff ‘growing up… and cheek half-Pakistani… enmity the detail of things’ is explored extensively suspend her good cheer, full-length collecting, The State at Gray Shoulder, which earned be involved with a oust on say publicly New Fathering Poets heave in 1994. Since proliferate she has published heptad collections (and a controlled earlier poems), for which she has been designated for a handful prizes, including three T S Playwright prize shortlistings, and a Cholmondeley bestow from interpretation Society break into Authors funny story 2002. Surround 2011 she published Homesick for description Earth, unqualified versions engage in the Country poet Jules Supervielle, deed, in 2013, At description Time stop Partition, a long rime in cardinal parts which, as she reveals mend her entry to make public recording feel, is household on uncultivated grandmother’s excursion from Bharat to say publicly newly built Pakistan constant worry 1947. Alvi worked likewise a noncritical school instructor for go to regularly years (and several lady her poems are thoroughly studied exclaim schools), explode now entirety as a freelance man of letters and metrical composition tutor, principally for representation Poetry School.
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Arif Alvi
President of Pakistan from 2018 to 2024
Arif-ur-Rehman Alvi (Urdu: عارف الرحمٰن علوی) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 13th president of Pakistan, in office from 2018 to 2024.[1] He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from June 2013 to May 2018 and again from August to September 2018. Alvi was a dentist before entering politics in 1979, when he joined Jamaat-e-Islami (Pakistan), but resigned later on from the party and then joined former cricketer Imran Khan's party in 1996 and is amongst the founding members of PTI.[2]
Alvi was elected to the National Assembly, from NA-250 Karachi-XII in 2013 and was re-elected in 2018 from NA-247 Karachi South-II. He was later nominated as the PTI's candidate for the presidential election. He was elected as the 13th President of Pakistan after defeating Fazal-ur-Rehman and Aitzaz Ahsan, after which he resigned from the National Assembly and was sworn into office on 9 September 2018, succeeding Mamnoon Hussain.
Personal life and education
[edit]His father, Habib-ur-Rehman Elahi Alvi, was a dentist in Delhi, British India who migrated to Karachi after the establishment of Pakistan,[3] and opened a dental clinic in Saddar Town.[4] His father became political