Birth— 
Where—Lahore
Education— McGill University 
Currently—Islamabad

Bibliography

• The Footprints of Partition (2015)

   

Anam is Director, Programs & Outreach at The Association for the Development of Pakistan (ADP). She also oversees the education and energy sectors at ADP and works with the Media and Communications teams focusing on ADP’s presence on social media, donor communications as well as several other outreach initiatives.

She has an academic background in international development from McGill University where she completed her BA in International Development and Economics. While there, she started her career with the Citizens Archive of Pakistan in 2010. She led their Oral History Project, collecting narratives of the first and second generations of Pakistanis in parts of Punjab to document their narrative of Partition, which challenges the existing discourse about the past in India and Pakistan. The Footprints of Partition is her first book. 

Anam is also a teacher of development studies, and a student of psychotherapy, with a special interest in trauma and healing in conflict zones. She was born and brought up in Lahore and currently resides in Islamabad with her husband.

The Footprints of Partition
Anam Zakaria
ANAM Zakaria’s The Footprints of Partition: Narratives of Four Generations of Pakistanis and Indians is an honest and sensitive investigation into Pakistan’s traumatic birth. Born out of an oral history project that Zakaria headed for the Citizens Archive of Pakistan, the book weaves together her observations of contemporary Pakistan with memories of four generations of Pakistanis and Indians as they try to reflect and make sense of the past.