Naz Ikramullah

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Naz Ikramullah Ashraf (née Naz Ikramullah) is a British-Canadian artist and film producer of Pakistani origin.

Education

She was trained as an artist at the Byam Shaw School of Art (BFA) and later specialized in lithography at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Her prints and collages are in the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Jordan and the Cartwright Gallery in Bradford, amongst others.

Career

Naz designed and wrote a filmstrip for the NFB film Making Faces, which won the First Prize for Art Education in Oakland, California in 1989. She also completed a film regarding the cultural life of Muslim women of the Indian subcontinent. She teaches painting and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art.

Family

Naz was born in London, England to a prominent Pakistani 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. Her mother, who later served as a Delegate to the United Nations and a Pakistani Ambassador to Morocco, was a member of the Suhrawardy family of Calcutta.

Amongst her uncles she could count Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Premier of Bengal and Prime Minister of Pakistan and Mohammad 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 settled in Canada in the 1970s and was married to the prominent Canadian Urdu short story writer and novelist, Syed Moin Ashraf, until he died in 2003. He claimed descent from the Sufi Saint Ashraf Jahangir Semnani and some of his stories include Fatherhood and Reborn. Together, they have a daughter named Aamna.

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