Naz Ikramullah
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Naz Ikramullah Ashraf (née Naz Ikramullah) is a prominent Pakistani Canadian artist.
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[edit] Education
She was trained as an artist at the Byam Shaw School of Art (BFA) and later specialized in lithography from the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her prints are in the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Jordan and the Cartwright Gallery in Bradford, amongst others.
[edit] Career
Naz designed and wrote a filmstrip for the NFB film "Making Faces," which won 1st prize for Art Education in Oakland, California in 1989. She has recently completed a film regarding the Cultural Life of Muslim Women of the Indian Sub-Continent. She teaches painting and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art.
[edit] Family
Naz was born in London, England to a a prominent Indian Muslim family. Her father, Mohammed Ikramullah, was the first Foreign Secretary of Pakistan and her mother, Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, one of the first women in Pakistan's Constituent Assembly, later serving as a Delegate to the UN and Pakistani Ambassador to Morocco. Her mother was a member of the Suhrawardy family of Calcutta, and amongst her uncles she could count Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Premier of Bengal and Prime Minister of Pakistan and Muhammad Hidayatullah, Vice President and Chief Justice of India. Her siblings include(d) a brother and two sisters: Inam Ikramullah, Salma Sobhan and Princess Sarvath of Jordan.
She was married to the prominent Urdu short story writer and novelist, Syed Moin Ashraf and settled in Canada with him in the 70s.
