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Laila Ahmed

Commissions essays and interviews.

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Stories by Laila

Phones fill every gap. What we lose when we are never bored.

Laila Ahmed17 Oct 20265 min read

Cafés, readings and staff who actually read. A new kind of bookshop in Karachi.

Laila Ahmed16 Oct 20265 min read

An essay about leaving, returning and the small towns that made us.

Laila Ahmed14 Oct 20266 min read

A projector, a white sheet and forty plastic chairs. The best cinema in town.

Laila Ahmed11 Oct 20265 min read

In an age of instant messages, the slowness is the message.

Laila Ahmed8 Oct 20264 min read