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Tahira Naqvi
Pakistani actress
Tahira Naqvi[3][4] (Punjabi, Urdu: طاہرہ نقوی; 20 August 1956 – 2 June 1982) was a Pakistani actress who began her career in the 1970s and worked until her death at the age of 25.[5] She became popular by appearing in several television series and two films in her career spanning a few years.[6][5] She was known as the Mistress of Emotions because she portrayed roles of sentiment, nostalgia, and despondency in dramas.[1] Tahira, along with Uzma Gillani, Khalida Riyasat ,and Roohi Bano dominated Pakistan's television screens during the 1970s and 1980s.[7]
Early life
Tahira Naqvi was born in Daska, Pakistan, on August 20, 1956.[5] Tahira completed her early studies at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore, and later she graduated from Government Girls College.[1]
Career
She began her career as a television actress.[8][5] Tahira also worked at Radio Pakistan in 1974, and she worked in fifty television dramas.&# TAHIRA NAQVI Senior Urdu Language Lecturer Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies New York University 50 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 PHONE: 914 319 6016 Email:tn9@nyu.edu __________________________________________________ Academic Information 1981-1983, Western Connecticut State University MS, Education Connecticut Certification English 7-12. 1967-69, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan MA, Psychology 1965, Lahore College for Women, Pakistan BA, English Teaching Experience 2006 - to present – Urdu Language Lecturer at New York University. 2002 – 2006 - New York University – Adjunct Lecturer Urdu Language. Elementary I and II, Intermediate I and II. Designed and prepared all teaching materials. 2002 – to present, at New York University, School of Continuing and Professional Studies: Center for Foreign Language and translation – Grader for Urdu Proficiency exams. Fall 2001, Columbia University –Adjunct Lecturer of Urdu. Designed and Taught Urdu literature course titled “Women Write Partition.” Spring 1999, Columbia University –Adjunct Lectu Tahira Naqvi (M.S., Western Connecticut State U) has been teaching English and Urdu for the last thirteen years. A widely-published short story writer, she is currently working on her first novel and is translating a collection of short stories by the late Pakistani writer, Khadija Mastur, for Oxford University Press. Lahore is unlike any other place I've ever seen. Not even on its busiest days are there as many cars on the streets and avenues of New York as there are here, day or night. I sit in my aunt's White Pajero jeep, clutch the edges of my seat, my eyes darting in a hundred different directions, my breath held, mostly in fear, while our somber-faced driver weaves in and out of several lines of cars, vans and buses with the careless ease of a gymnast. On the road dense clouds of dust arise without warning. Sometimes you can't see what's inches away from you and then suddenly everything clears and you find you were a hair breadth's distance from a Toyota or
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Winter 1998, Volume 15.1
Fiction
Tahira Naqvi
Lost in the Marketplace
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