Ghazala Alam
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Ghazala Alam

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I am the daughter of immigrants who left their home in India to establish a new homeland in Pakistan. Born in Hyderabad, Pakistan and raised and educated in Karachi, I grew up in a culture rich in Urdu language and literary arts. I remember my father reciting Iqbal's Urdu and Persian poetry, often humming to himself. I often accompanied my mother to Qawalli programs and enjoyed the devotional Sufi poetry. In my adult life, I have endured life's trials and tribulations with grit and resolve. Circumstances forced me as a young woman to first seek refuge in Europe and then in 1991 to start building a new life as an immigrant and a proud citizen of the US. As a practicing physician, I have seen the torment of an Alzheimer's patient, the helplessness of someone facing terminal cancer, and the inertia of a depressed mind. These experiences of joy and grief, my own as well as of those around me, inspire me to write Urdu poetry and to express the same literary style in English poetry. My losses and struggles are what have made me into a poet.
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