Bina Shah is a writer and journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. Her most recent novel is Slum Child, and her latest novel, Peter Pochmann Goes To Pakistan, was written partly while she was at the International Writers” Program in Iowa City at the University of Iowa in 2011.
Pakistani humanitarian Abdul Sattar Edhi – one of the world’s greatest social workers – died on July 8, 2016 at the age of eighty-eight. Over the course...
The year is 2024, and Malala Yousefzai, an Oxford graduate with a degree in politics, has returned to Pakistan, where she plans to campaign for a seat in...
Malala Yousufzai’s recent speech on July 13, 2013 at the United Nations made the world pause and pay tribute to the journey of this brave sixteen-year old...
As I walked into the transit hall in Kamal Attaturk International Airport on a warm Istanbul evening, I wondered what I was going to do with the five hours...
“Honor killings” are unfortunately not new to Pakistan. Yet, with rising numbers of immigrants carrying their patriarchal values to their new homes abroad,...
A few days ago British journalist Natasha Smith published a long and anguished account of being sexually assaulted at the hands of a mob in Cairo’s Tahrir...