Birth—
Where—Karachi
Education—Completing Phd.
Currently—Pakistan
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Rafia Zakaria is the first Pakistani American woman to serve as a Director for Amnesty International USA. She is a columnist for DAWN, Pakistan’s largest English newspaper. She is a writer and PhD candidate in political philosophy. Her work and views have been featured in the New York Times, Dissent, The Progressive, Guernica, and on Al Jazeera English, the BBC, The Hindu, and National Public Radio. She is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An intimate history of Pakistan, forthcoming from Beacon Press.Rafia is a lawyer and the Founder of the Muslim Women’s Legal Defense Fund for the Muslim Alliance of Indiana/The Julian Center Shelter representing victims of domestic violence. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Indiana University, currently working on her dissertation entitled “Negotiating Identity: Sharia, multiculturalism and Muslim women.“She was the John Edwards Fellow at Indiana University for 2007-2008 which is the highest academic honor that can be achieved by a graduate student at Indiana University. She is the only Pakistani American woman recognized by a joint resolution of the Indiana House and Senate for her work on women’s rights.
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