Ali IkramAli Ikram

Ali Ikram is a writer and broadcaster based in Auckland. During his career as a TV reporter he worked for TVNZ, TV3 and CTV while his columns are published in the NZ Herald and Fairfax newspapers.

Breaking plates and fixing hearts: Ali Ikram on newly honoured ONZM, Dr Hamid Ikram, aka Dad

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In yesterday’s honours list Professor Hamid Ikram was made an Officer of the NZ Order of Merit, for services to cardiology and education. His son, Ali Ikram, cheers on an extraordinary Pakistani Cantabrian. Families are stories. The one my father is most fond of telling concerns a visit to his grandfather’s house when he was a small child … Read more

Books: The Monday Extract – Ali Ikram’s Brief Encounter with Keri Hulme

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Ali Ikram’s picaresque account of his assignment to interview Keri Hulme. Volume two of Tell You What, the new compendium of New Zealand non-fiction writing selected by Susanna Andrew and Jolisa Gracewood, and published by Auckland University Press, features the usual suspects – Naomi Arnold, Ashleigh Young, Steve Braunias, and other assorted experienced litterateurs. There’s … Read more