Hiba Memon, a 22-year-old Pakistani based in the United Arab Emirates, has been selected as the winner of the Gul Mawaz Khan Poetry Competition. Her poem will be read out at the House of Lords, the second chamber of the United Kingdom Parliament. A prose on ancestry, it takes the reader on a journey of uncertainty, new beginnings and in search for one’s identity. “I am excited for sure. Although I wish I could personally fly over and recite it myself, but parliamentarian procedures don’t allow it,” she said. Hiba Memon recently completed her Bachelors in Sustainable & Renewable Energy Engineering from the University of Sharjah. She said her friend had told her about the competition. The aspiring writer has a poetry blog and occasionally performs spoken word poetry. The Gul Mawaz Khan Memorial Foundation is dedicated to promote the memory of martyred Muslim soldiers who risked and sacrificed their lives fighting for Britain in the World Wars.
Pakistani girl’s poem to be read at House of Lords
Published on: April 29, 2019 3:18 AM