Birth—1954
Where—Karachi
Education—
Lives in Houston, TX

Bibliography

Brick Walls: Tales of Hope & Courage from Pakistan, FB Publishing (2015)

Saadia Faruqi is a Pakistani American writer of fiction and nonfiction. She writes for a number of print and online publications about the global contemporary Muslim experience and about interfaith dialogue.

She has trained law enforcement on cultural sensitivity issues and offers community college classes on a variety of topics related to Islam and Muslims. She is editor-in-chief of Blue Minaret, a magazine for Muslim art, poetry and prose.

Her short stories have been published in several American literary journals and magazines. “Brick Walls: Tales of Hope & Courage from Pakistan” is her debut fiction book.

Brick Walls
Brick Walls by  Saadia Faruqi is a collection of seven short stories set in Pakistan, featuring a diverse cast of characters, from Asma, a widow struggling to feed her child, to the privileged Rabia, who finds that wealth does not always protect women, to the precocious ten year old Nida, an aspiring cricketer who is not put off by being told that “only boys can play cricket.”