Prompted by actor Faran Tahir’s lecture on theater and dictatorships, Bina Shah argues that only the arts can free Pakistan from terrorism and intolerance.
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In this week’s column, Karachi-based journalist Bina Shah discusses the dangers and discrimination that female journalists face in Pakistan.
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A blank page in Pakistan’s International Herald Tribune leads columnist Bina Shah on a quest to discover what was censored and why.
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Searching for truth in media hyperbole. In this week’s Pakistan Unveiled, Bina Shah takes the media to task for their portrayals of Pakistan, including in the reporting of the Gaza-Israel conflict.
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Bina Shah writes about her recent trip to China and about the perils and uncertainties of having your work translated in a restrictive environment.
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In the wake of the Taliban’s attack on 14 year old Malala Yusufzai, Bina Shah revisits a collection of Taliban poetry.
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Pakistani writer Bina Shah recounts reading George Orwell’s Politics and the English Language with university students and highlights the troubling comparisons between his work and Pakistan today.
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