Naz Ikramullah Ashraf is a British-Canadian artist and film producer of Pakistani-Bengali origin.
11 Facts About Naz Ikramullah
1.
2.
Naz Ikramullah's mother, who later served as a Delegate to the United Nations and an Ambassador to Morocco, was a member of the Suhrawardy family of Calcutta, India.
3.
Naz Ikramullah became a Mohajir by moving to West Pakistan, though many of her prominent relatives remained in India and others remained in what would become Bangladesh.
4.
Naz Ikramullah's siblings include a brother and two sisters: Inam Ikramullah, Salma Sobhan and Princess Sarvath El Hassan of Jordan.
5.
Naz Ikramullah 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.
6.
Naz Ikramullah claimed to have descended from the Sufi Saint Ashraf Jahangir Semnani and some of his stories include Fatherhood and Reborn.
7.
Naz Ikramullah was trained as an artist at the Byam Shaw School of Art and later specialized in lithography at the Slade School of Fine Art in London.
8.
Naz Ikramullah designed and wrote a filmstrip for the NFB film Making Faces, which won the First Prize for Art Education in Oakland, California in 1989.
9.
Naz Ikramullah completed a film regarding the cultural life of Muslim women of the Indian Subcontinent.
10.
Naz Ikramullah teaches painting and printmaking at the Ottawa School of Art.
11.
In 2014, Naz Ikramullah published a book about interconnections between Hindu and Muslim cultures called Ganga Jamuni, Silver and Gold: A Forgotten Culture.