JAFREE, Mohammed Jawaid Iqbal 1939- (J. Iqbal Geoffrey)

PERSONAL: Born January 1, 1939, in Chiniot, India (now Pakistan); naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Syed Iqbal Hussain and Shahzadi Mumtazjehan Shah; married Regina Wai-ling Cheng, 1967 (divorced, 1978); married Ceyyeda Ferzawne Nuccwe, March 3, 1988; children: (first marriage) Syed Hussain Haider, Shahzadi Zohra Elinoi Cheng. Ethnicity: "Asian-American." Education: Government College, Lahore, Pakistan, B.A. (with distinction), 1957; Punjab University, LL.B. (summa cum laude), 1959; awarded A.I.C.E.A., London, England, 1961; Harvard University, LL.M., 1966; British Institute of Management, A.M.B.I.M., 1969; Read University, Ph.D., 1970, and LL.D.; Sangamon State University (now University of Illinois—Springfield), M.A. (highest honors), 1973; Bradford University, postgraduate certificate in business administration, 1976.

ADDRESSES: Home—416 South Warson Rd., St. Louis, MO 63124-1212. Office—Geoffrey & Khitran, 11 Omer Plaza, 1 Justice Akram Rd., Lahore 54000, Mozang, Pakistan; fax: 92-42-636-9430 and 92-42-637-4540; also 128 E1 Gulberg Main Blvd., PK-54662 Lahore, Pakistan; and 36 Oaklands Rd., London W7 2DR, England. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Geoffrey & Khitran (international law firm), Lahore, Pakistan, partner and chair, 1960—. Pakistan Institute for Human Rights, general counsel, 1960—; United Nations, human rights officer, 1966-67; British Lion Films, chief accountant, 1968-69. State of Illinois, assistant attorney general, 1972-73; Shahzadi Mumtaz Jehan Trust, general counsel, 1972—; Embassy of Kuwait, London, England, chief accountant, 1974-75; special advisor to the president of Pakistan, 1980-84; Office of Ombudsman Order of Pakistan, founder, 1983. St. Mary's College, professor, 1967-68; CWS University, professor, 1970-71; American University of Pakistan, founder, 1970; Cleveland State University, professor, 1971-72; Hunerkada College of Art, Regents' Visiting Professor, member of board of governors, 1991—; Read University, professor at Law Center and Silver Jubilee University Professor; distinguished visiting professor at Lahore Law College. Professional artist, with solo and group shows throughout the world, including Hyde Park, Alfred Brod Galleries, Everson Art Museum, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Grand Central Moderns in New York, NY, Henri Gallery in Washington, DC, Miami Museum of Modern Art, Victoria Miro Gallery, Hayward Gallery, and Royal College of Art; work represented in permanent collections, including those at Herbert Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Pasadena Museum of Art, Tate Gallery, British Museum, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Smith College, and H. W. Janson Museum of Modern Art.

MEMBER: Royal Society of Arts (fellow), Royal Academy of Artists.

AWARDS, HONORS: Huntington Hartford II and John D. Rockefeller III fellow, 1962-65; Fay B. Kent fellow, Alpha Chi Omega, 1963, 1965; Paris Biennial Award, 1965; Sir Philip Hendy and Lord Goodman bursary award, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1968; Queen Elizabeth II fellow, Bradford University, 1975-76; Outstanding Citizenship Award, Citizenship Council of Metropolitan Chicago, 1979; Sir Herbert Read Medal, 1992; designated a living legend by the government of Pakistan, 1994; nominated for King Hussein Award for Human Rights, 2002.

WRITINGS:

Qose-Qizah, 1957. Justice Is the Absence of Dictatorial Prerogative, Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA), 1965.

Human Rights in Islam and in Pakistan, Harvard Law School (Cambridge, MA), 1965.

A Critical Study of Moral Dilemmas, IconographicalConfusions, and Complicated Politics of Twentieth-Century Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1967.

The Concept of Human Rights in Islam, 1980.

(Coauthor) ABA: BLI Recognition and Enforcement ofMoney Judgments, 1994.

(Coauthor) International Agency and Distribution Law, 1996.

Implosion of Injustice, 2001.

Also author of Failure of Justice: Night Mares in Just Ice. Editor, Law Review, Punjab University, 1958-59, and Harvard Art Review, 1965-66. Some writings appear under name variation J. Iqbal Geoffrey.

SIDELIGHTS: Mohammed Jawaid Iqbal Jaffree told CA: "Good writing must sustain an element of surprise, something the reader did not expect from the writer. My writing is a rite against silence and indifference. It connotes a new 'aesth-ethic' that you can change the world—being a brave part of the massive whole—by changing your self. I want to establish and reinvent nous to nous communication with compassion aforethought.

"My salutary influences have been and are Hazrat Ali, Ghalib, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Sir Herbert Read, Antonia Fraser, Milan Kundera, and Sir V. S. Naipaul.

"The writing process that I indulge (and vice versa) is not of some coming, but of be-coming.

"My writing is inspired by the insensitivity and inhumanity of some persons to humankind, which amazes and repels me. I want to make pink lemonade out of those lemons. We have to take the given further."