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Literary & Performing Arts Community Creativity + Professional Services
Rawanee is a platform promoting creative thought and expression, including community projects and professional services
Rawanee - what we're all about
Our Focus: Creative Authenticity & Excellence
Our Focus: Creative Authenticity & Excellence
Our Focus: Creative Authenticity & Excellence
Rawanee has been working to promote community creativity of thought and expression since 2020.
We work to:
- Encourage the generation of new creative and literary output, with a focus on creative authenticity and excellence
- Support the preservation of existing creative and literary artefacts
This includes podcasts, events, publications - most of our community work is voluntary or subsidised
Professional Creative Practice
Our Focus: Creative Authenticity & Excellence
Our Focus: Creative Authenticity & Excellence
Alongside its community and cultural work, Rawanee also hosts FUN’Gaah - Studio Rawanee, a professional creative resilience practice offering structured reflective work including coaching (1:1 and small group), workshops and trainings, events and practice sessions, and leadership and resilience practice
Our Values
Our Focus: Creative Authenticity & Excellence
Our Values
FOR THE GLOBAL MAJORITY
Rawanee started off as a Pakistani diaspora collective and whilst we remain rooted, this is now a global majority space for anyone who shares our values and approach.
Everyone is welcome - and we encourage less represented communities to share their work too.
MULTILINGUAL
We currently work mainly with Urdu and English, but are always open to expanding our scope of work.
Since 2024 we have given space to Turkish, Arabic, Persian and regional South Asian languages in our initiatives, and welcome more.
Team Rawanee
Muniba Mahmud
Laiba Karim Khan
Co-Founder and Lead - Rawanee
Association with Rawanee:
Muniba Mahmud co-founded Rawanee based on the recognition and the yearning of a few years, for a space that would allow versatile and authentic creativity to flourish: a space that was not limited by the dictates of commercialism, checklists and stereotypes.
She oversees the overall management and strategy of Rawanee and its key projects: events and creative content (including publications, podcast and video content, plays and performances) and workshops.
Writing, Career & Hobbies:
Muniba writes compulsively, and works on poetry and prose (long-form, short stories).
She day-jobs in Marketing and has previously studied business (IBA, Karachi), public administration (Columbia, NY) and novel-writing (Faber Academy, London). She continues to take short courses and dabble in learning about other subjects of interest including history, global affairs, poetry & religion - and feels that these influences impact her writing.
She's easy going and loves a purposeful chat (she confesses that small talk positively frightens her) - so feel free to reach out to her over email if you'd like to speak further.
Laiba Karim Khan
Laiba Karim Khan
Rawanee Administration & Podcast Manager
Association with Rawanee:
Based in Pakistan, Laiba has been a part of Rawanee's journey since August, 2022, as a member, content editor, youth outreach and administrative manager.
Since 2024, she also manages the podcast and supports the production of events and publications.
Writing, Career and Hobbies:
Laiba is a writer, poet and an undergraduate student of English Literature and Linguistics.
She is currently published in the Blooming Pen anthology with her short fiction, "The Memory of Colors," and Cathartic literary magazine with, "What if....", and has also won 1st prize for poetry in BPWS Online fundraising Contest.
She is often found engaging with a diverse array of literary genres, encompassing short fiction, poetry, longer prose, literary critique, as well as scholarly composition, but her persisting interest lies in short fiction.
Saba Kazmi
Saba Kazmi
Co-Founder
Association with Rawanee:
Co-founder
Saba Kazmi is a seasoned writer and content strategist with over a decade of experience in tech, content, and product. An avid reader with a curious mind, Saba will be found with a cup of coffee, a book, and a notebook some early morning at the beach, connecting thoughts, feelings, and words. She writes about life experiences and lessons, so her reader may find a piece of themselves in her work. Her greatest joy is in stories that give hope and connectedness.