Bio
Mira Hashmi lives and works in Lahore. A graduate of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University in Montreal, she has been teaching the discipline of Film Studies since 1998, and is currently Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the Lahore School of Economics.
Mira has also been writing about film for various publications for over twenty years. Her areas of special interest include the cinema of Alfred Hitchcock and the Hollywood musical, and she also has a special affinity for Hindi masala movies. She has two children, one of them named after her grandfather the iconic poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz, and the other after a character from the TV series Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She always seeks the perfect glass of cold coffee, and hopes to swim with dolphins one day.