Aneela
Author
Aneela Arshad is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master, Teacher and Healer. She owns and operates a Holistic Medical facility in New York where she has, by the grace of God, successfully healed many people suffering from stress, depression, sleep disorders and other related emotional illnesses. She is also an Author, Poet, Playwright and a Screenplay Writer aspiring to spread peace through her writings. Currently, the president of The Arch, a New York based Non-Profit, Cultural Organization; she hopes to reach out to the world through Art and Theatre, thereby bridging the gaps of diversity.
Her first book, The Bounty of Allah was published in 1999 by the Crossroads publishing company. She has written three screenplays, two of which, Where Spirits Soar and The Right and the Wrong, were bought by Nivelli International films. Nightmare at Uch Sharif is in the pre-production phase. She has also produced two plays, Mogul E Azam The Great Mogul and Amir Khusro in 2001 and 2003. She was nominated by the Sub-Continent Peace foundation to receive a proclamation and a Key to the City of Jersey City for her literary endeavors and the passion to address the crimes against women, particularly Muslim women.
THE SILENT LAMEN, her latest work, an anthology of which many poems have been published in various magazines, is a collection of poems based on the true stories of women whose voices have been stifled in a world where being a woman is a curse unto itself. This anthology lays bare the warped reality of women trapped beneath the rubble of a crumbling civilization. It voices the misery of tormented spirits crying out for help.
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