Editing Salima Hashmi (section)

==Early life and education==
Salima was born in 1942, in before-the-partition [[New Delhi]], India to parents [[Faiz Ahmed Faiz]] and [[Alys Faiz]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Siddiqui|first=Ras H.|date=September 11, 2011|title=Community: Remembering Faiz in Conversation: Salima Hashmi at Berkeley|url=https://www.pakistanlink.org//Community/2011/Sep11/30/03.HTM|access-date=2021-05-03|website=Pakistanlink.org}}</ref> She is Pakistani. She has one younger sister, [[Muneeza Hashmi]], a senior producer with [[Pakistan Television Corporation|Pakistan TV]]. Her mother, Alys Faiz, was a sister of Christobel Taseer, mother of [[Salman Taseer]], the former [[Governor of Punjab, Pakistan]].

Salima migrated with her family to [[Lahore]] during the [[partition of India]] in 1947 and was raised in [[Lahore]]. After studying design at Lahore's National College of Arts (NCA), she moved to England in the early 1960s, where she studied at the [[Bath Academy of Art]] in [[Corsham]], receiving a diploma in art education from there in 1965.<ref name="artasia">{{cite web|title=Paradise Found & Lost by Salima Hashmi|publisher=ArtAsiaPacific Magazine|url=http://artasiapacific.com/Magazine/57/ParadiseFoundLostSalimaHashmi|access-date=16 December 2018}}</ref> Salima later studied at the [[Rhode Island School of Design]] in Providence, Rhode Island, and received a MAE degree in 1990.<ref name="southasia">{{cite web|url=http://www.southasiafoundation.org/chairperson_pakistan.htm|title=Prof. Salima Hashmi – SAF Chairperson – Pakistan|publisher=South Asia Foundation.Org|access-date=16 December 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|title=RISD XYZ Spring/Summer 2015|url=https://issuu.com/risd/docs/risdxyz_springsummer_2015_web/61|access-date=2021-05-03|website=Issuu|date=2 June 2015 |page=59|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=|date=2008-06-13|title=An Evening with Salima Hashmi|url=https://www.t2f.com.pk/an-evening-with-salima-hashmi/|access-date=2021-05-03|website=T2F {{!}} A Project of PeaceNiche|language=en-US}}</ref>

Salima married a fellow professor [[Shoaib Hashmi]]. The couple has two children, son Yasser Hashmi and one daughter [[Mira Hashmi]]. Her husband [[Shoaib Hashmi]] retired from a teaching position at [[Government College University, Lahore]], and [[Lahore School of Economics]], and was also a popular co-star with her in comedy and children's television shows on [[Pakistan Television Corporation|Pakistan television]] in the early 1970s - for example the highly popular 1970s children's show 'Akkar Bakkar'.<ref name=Tribune>{{cite web|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/121724/banning-cartoons-chasing-fairytales/ |author=Ali Usman|title=Banning cartoons: Chasing fairytales|publisher=The Express Tribune (newspaper)|date=21 February 2011|access-date=14 December 2018}}</ref>