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Bina Shah

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Karachi, Pakistan
As seen in: Medium, The New York Times, HuffPost, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), The Times of India, Goodreads, NPR, Al Jazeera English, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and
Covers:  islam, violence against women, women's issues, women's rights, women and islam, literature, education, the arts, pakistan, society, technology
Doesn't Cover: politics, engineering, sports
Pakistani author of Before She Sleeps and The Monsoon War. Lying in the gutter, looking up at the stars. My new Substack is in testing phase; link below.
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Awards

Agahi Award

2013 - Education

Awarded award for excellence in journalism for feature story on my blog "Hearing the Hopes of Pakistan's Deaf World"

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Amalfi Coast Literary Festival

2010 - Premio Internazionale

Literary award at the Amafli Coast literary festial in Italy for my novel "Il Bambino Che Credeva Nella Liberta" (A Season for Martyrs)

Golden Quill Award

2014 - Best ongoing blog

From the Press Club of Pennsylvania for my column at Sampsonia Way, Pakistan Unveiled

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Agahi Award

2015 - Women's Empowerment

Won an award for my column "The War Against Women in South Asia" in the category of Gender: Political Empowerment

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