Dual Difficulty: Being a Pakistani Shia Woman on the Internet
The first ten days of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar and a month of reverence for the...
A Women Deliver Conference Media Fellow, United Nations Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellow and a reporting journalist since the past five years, Zoya Anwer has worked for two major English newspapers in Pakistan and has covered a range of topics related to gender equality, ethnic and class dynamics as well as social relationships between individuals and cities. She also writes fiction and was published in an Indian magazine, The Equator Line.
The first ten days of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar and a month of reverence for the...
Illustration by Aniqa Haider The clock strikes 10 in the morning, and the admins and moderators of different groups on...
Rida Khan, a 21-year-old computer science student at Habib University, fixes her red spectacles and reviews her code for errors....
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