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	Burqavaganza

Deepti

3-28-2007 4:04 AM

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muslim, pakistan, lahore, play, burqa, comedy, islam, muslims

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21d15116-3b45-4e04-9f5f-137c6a079723/B93C3673-CA3A-4F89-996B-78D1EDFC43AD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html" href="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.gulfnews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html">Ajoka Theatre's new play Burqavaganza, which treats the touchy issue of the veil with a generous dose of humour, opened on Monday at Alhamra Art Centre in Lahore.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html">Nadeem said he had tried to tackle problems faced by the youth and middle-aged women of the Islamic world who were caught in the crossfire of perceptions about the veil.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html">The play depicted modern youth in veil going out on dates and generally sneaking out of educational institutions, offices and homes for discreet dalliances with friends of the opposite sex.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html">News clips were screened in between to show misconceptions prevailing in different countries which had banned the veil in the aftermath of terrorist strikes.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10114199.html">Among other issues, the play sought to address the compulsive obsession to confine the female of the species to anonymity. It sought to reason that, whatever the rationale for covering women's faces in primitive or medieval times, there could be no justification in modem times for such a practise. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B93C3673-CA3A-4F89-996B-78D1EDFC43AD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>