About Rafia

RAFIA ZAKARIA is the author of

"The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan" (2015), Veil (2017)  and "Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption" (2021).

She is a columnist for Dawn (Pakistan) and writes the Alienated column at The Baffler. She served on the Board of Amnesty International USA from 2009-2015. She is a research scholar at City University of New York's Colin Powell School of Global Leadership.