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Aroosa Kanwal is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the International Islamic University, Pakistan. She is an author of Rethinking Identities in Contemporary Pakistani Fiction: Beyond 9/11 (2015), which was awarded the KLF-Coca-Cola award for the best non-fiction book of the year in 2015.

Saiyma Aslam is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the International Islamic University, Pakistan. She is a researcher in postcolonial studies and English literature, with a focus on travelling theory, mobility, globalisation, and Islamic feminism. She is the author of From Stasis to Mobility: Arab Muslim Feminists and Travelling Theory (2017).