Dr. Ajaz Anwar is a celebrated Pakistani watercolourist, art educator, architectural historian, and conservationist best known for his evocative depictions of old Lahore. The son of the noted cartoonist and watercolour painter Anwar Ali (Nanna), Anwar grew up in an artistic environment that nurtured his passion from an early age. After studying at Joan McDonald School and Government College, Lahore, Anwar earned an MA in Fine Arts from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, in 1967, graduating with a gold medal. In the early 1970s, he received a scholarship to study in Istanbul, completing a PhD in Muslim architecture at Istanbul Technical University in 1978. A year earlier, he attended UNESCO's...