Madiha R. Tahir
Madiha R. Tahir
Madiha R. Tahir is an independent journalist reporting on conflict, culture and politics in Pakistan. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera, Vice, The National, Guernica, The New Inquiry, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Wall Street Journal, The Herald (Pakistan), The Friday Times, Caravan, as well as on Democracy Now!, PRI and BBC The World, Global Post and other outlets. She is the director of the short documentary Wounds of Waziristan, focusing on Pakistani survivors of drone attacks. She holds a masters degree in Near Eastern Studies from NYU and an M.S. from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Tahir has travelled extensively throughout Pakistan from Balochistan to Swat as well as to rural areas to report on the floods, Sufi music, the Baloch separatist movement, the salience of nationalism and religion, Islamist organizations and national electoral politics. She is a founding editor of Tanqeed, a magazine of politics and culture.
Vijay Prashad, Madiha R. Tahir, Qalandar Bux Memon
Writing about Pakistan is cliché-ridden. Fear is the dominant motif: mullahs, terrorists, nuclear bombs. And beneath that is victimhood: refugees from floods and military adventures, women in burq...
Anupama Rao
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Ravish Kumar
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Asok Majumdar
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Alexis Wright
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Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
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Margit Koves
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Murray E.G. Smith
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Amalendu Guha
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Aimé Césaire
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Peter D. Thomas
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Vasant Kaiwar
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Eleanor Zelliot
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