Gail Minault teaches in the Dept of History, University of Texas. She is the author of The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India (New York: Columbia U. Press, 1982). She has just finished a translation of Altaf Husain Hali's Majalis-al-Nisa0. Kishwar Naheed (b. 1940) is the Director of National Center, Lahore and a prolific writer, editor, and translator. She has published four volumes of poetry and two books of translations. Frances W. Pritchett is now teaching at Columbia University. Her doctoral dissertation on the qissa literature in Hindi and Urdu is expected to be published soon. N. M. Hashed (d. 1975) was one of the most important Urdu poets of this century. We hope to publish soon a special section on him. Fahmeeda Riyaz (b. 1946) has published two volumes of poetry. A major contemporary Pakistani poet, she now lives in self-imposed exile in India since the military take-over of government in Pakistan. Muhammad Saleem-ur-Rahman (b, 1934) has written excellent short stories and poems that are yet to be collected. He is also well-known as a translator from English and as a one-time editor of Savera. Until recently he used to write regularly for the Pakistan Times. Parween Shakir is a young poet in Pakistan and also a member of its civil service. She has published two volumes of poetry. Zahida Zaidi teaches English literature at Aligarh Muslim University and has published one volume of poems. 126