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Bina Shah @BinaShah

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.

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