Bina Shah
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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.
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"
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
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