Fatima Bhutto
Writer, journalist and activist.
Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul, Afghanistan, and grew up in Syria and Pakistan. She graduated from Columbia University, where she majored in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and obtained a Masters in South Asian Government and Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. She is the author of books of fiction and non-fiction, through which she expresses her political activism. Her publications feature Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter’s Memoir (Nation Books, 2010), her personal memoirs recalling the life and assassination of her father, and the novel The Runaways (Viking, 2018), which deals with the radicalisation of three young Muslims. A recent publication is New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi, and K-Pop (Columbia Global Reports, 2019), where she analyses the emergence of various phenomena of global pop out of Asia. Bhutto wrote a weekly column for two years in Pakistan’s largest Urdu newspaper, Jang, and for its sister publication in English, The News International. In 2006, she covered the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and subsequent war from Lebanon itself, and also reported from Iran in January 2007 and from Cuba in April 2008. She writes for various international publications, including New Statesman, Daily Beast, The Guardian and The Caravan Magazine, amongst others.
Update: 8 February 2023
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