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Maria Fazal

Lecturer

MDMM

About

Maria Fazal is a Textile Designer and an Entrepreneur. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Textile Designing BTD (Hons) and holds a Masters Degree in Marketing and Merchandising form The Asian Institute of Fashion Design. She has been associated with several institutions since 2015 including TMUC, Karachi University, lara University for her command over core subjects like Techniques and Processes, Print Design, Surface Embellishment, Business Planning and Application, Managing Entrepreneurial Ventures and Marketing related courses. Her goal as a teacher is to empower and inspire her students help them develop their design aesthetics.

She has been an entrepreneur running her brand since 11 years and has also been the Marketing head of a multi brand store Atelier the Designers lounge in 2020 for three years. Her experience as an entrepreneur adds depth to her expertise.

Maria having an experience of teaching and experience for over 9 years is serving Iqra as a visiting faculty for marketing courses.

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Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.