Along with her co-star Azfar Rehman, she met with an accident in December 2015 when another vehicle collided with their car.Ayesha Omar co-starred as Maryam in the 2015 road-comedy adventure film, Karachi Se Lahore, for which she bagged the ARY Film Award for “Best Star Debut Female” in 2016.She released her song, Khamoshi, in 2012 and its music video won the Lux Style Award for “Best Video Album”.She was just 8 years old when she served as a host for the PTV show titled Meray Bachpan Kay Din.Omer has described her childhood as ”tough” and ”independent”.During her student life, she participated in a number of co-curricular activities and learned dance through theatre plays.Her mother brought up her children as a single mother.Ayesha Omer pictured with fans at Lahooti Melo 2019 in Sindh University Jamshoro (Kskhh / Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Ayesha Omar Facts She has a background in mix-media, public performance art and her creative and academic work has appeared in ArtNow, Cityscapes, Tanqeed, and Cultural Studies.She has appeared in the commercials for brands including Kurkure, Harpic, Capri, Pantene, and Zong. From 2020-21, she held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the University of Southern California. from the department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University in summer 2020. She employs queer, feminist, and environmental justice approaches to analyze how digital mediation informs and reconfigures gendered, eco-political urban life. Her next research project comparatively examines Huawei’s smart-city infrastructure in Lahore, Pakistan and Lagos, Nigeria. Omer's research draws on multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, research in Pakistani state archives, visual analysis of digital Chinese and Pakistani media content, CPEC policy documents, and has been supported by several grants, including the American Association of University Women (AAUW) International Doctoral Fellowship and the Global Dissertation Fellowship at NYU Shanghai. She argues that dust is the counter-imaginary of global connection. Her findings demonstrate that forms of technological extraction of indigenous lifeworlds inevitably produce what locals on CPEC grounds call “dust”. Her book manuscript, Networks of Dust: Media, Infrastructure, and Ecology along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, examines China's infrastructures in Pakistan’s indigenous borderlands, as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) - a flagship project of China’s global Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This project focuses on critical CPEC infrastructures: Huawei’s fiber optics that link Xinjiang to Islamabad and form a digital borderland in Kashmir’s Himalayas trade logistics technologies that mediate Gwadar’s deep waters in the Arabian Sea into standing reserve for its port and special economic zone and data modeling and simulations technologies for coal energy futures in the Thar Desert. Omer's research lies at the intersection of media, cultural, environmental, and global studies with area foci on Pakistan and China. Her scholarship combines multimodal ethnographic, archival methods to offer a situated, feminist analysis of the political and ecological effects of global media and communication technologies. Ayesha Omer’s research examines how infrastructure technologies mediate sociopolitical life.
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