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Rafia Zakaria

Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (Beacon 2015), which was named one of Newsweek’s Top 10 non-fiction books of 2015. She is a regular columnist for Dawn Pakistan and writes the "Reading Other Women" Series at The Boston Review. Her work has appeared in Guardian Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Republic, The New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Dissent, Guernica and various other venues. Her next book Veil will be published by Bloomsbury in 2017.


How the War On Terror Became America’s First “Feminist” War

Rafia Zakaria on American Neoimperialism Lies of Liberation
August 19, 2021  By Rafia Zakaria
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I Like to Be on the Margins: An Interview with Nadeem Aslam

The Golden Legend Author on Politics, Marriage, and Reading Widely
August 23, 2017  By Rafia Zakaria
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Reading Houellebecq in the Midst of the French Elections

How Art Can Hasten a Macabre Moral Shift and Legitimate Prejudice
May 5, 2017  By Rafia Zakaria
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Pankaj Mishra: We Committed Intellectual Suicide After 9/11

On Progress, Popular History, and Our Bleak and Divided Global Moment
March 20, 2017  By Rafia Zakaria
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Love and Terror in Pasternak’s Russia

A Cautionary Valentine's Day Tale
February 14, 2017  By Rafia Zakaria
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What’s Happening in America? Susan Sontag Sought to Find Out in 1966

50 Years Later, As Trump Takes the Presidency, the Question Remains
January 20, 2017  By Rafia Zakaria
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A Feminist Thoreau

On the Adirondack Woodswoman Anne LaBastille
November 30, 2016  By Rafia Zakaria
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The Banality of Donald Trump

On Hannah Arendt's Birthday, Examining her Relevance to our Political Moment
October 14, 2016  By Rafia Zakaria
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