Stories by Rafia Zakaria
Rafia Zakaria is an attorney and human rights activist. She is a columnist for DAWN Pakistan and a regular contributor for Al Jazeera America, Dissent, Guernica and many other publications.
She is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (Beacon Press 2015). She tweets @rafiazakaria
America’s far right is shaping apocalyptic narratives.
Updated 18 Apr, 2026 09:40am
Fear of no financial support keeps women in bad marriages.
Updated 11 Apr, 2026 09:23am
AI predictions regarding the war have been disproven.
Updated 04 Apr, 2026 09:43am
Pakistan’s role as potential peacemaker is quite a feat.
Updated 28 Mar, 2026 10:23am
Dubai is no longer insulated by a magic bubble.
Updated 14 Mar, 2026 09:49am
Social media is replete with abuses against women.
Published 07 Mar, 2026 05:13am
As Syria endures revolutionary pangs, the undaunted women of the SWPM are working to ensure that Syrian women will claim a place in their unwritten future.
Updated 28 Feb, 2026 09:37am
India is desperate for American attention.
Published 21 Feb, 2026 06:28am
Suffering in many cases is only cowardice.
Published 14 Feb, 2026 07:09am
New Delhi’s inflated view of itself has received a reality check.
Updated 07 Feb, 2026 09:22am
‘The Last First’ is more a study in resentment.
Published 31 Jan, 2026 05:34am
Europe has now discovered it has no recourse against Trump.
Published 24 Jan, 2026 06:03am
The agony over visas does not matter to Trump’s administration.
Updated 17 Jan, 2026 09:16am
The cuddly US that indulged Europe’s domestic spending has gone.
Published 10 Jan, 2026 05:19am
Mamdani’s vision will require a fight to translate into reality.
Published 03 Jan, 2026 05:51am
The Pakistani wedding used to be a rich cultural event full of heritage.
Published 27 Dec, 2025 06:28am
America’s glamour cannot mask the violence that goes on.
Published 20 Dec, 2025 05:34am
How did India, once a secular and admired democracy, fall into such a deep pit of propaganda and historical mistruths?
Updated 13 Dec, 2025 09:39am
Men often justify violence when women make their own choice.
Published 06 Dec, 2025 05:35am
Trump has been given an opportunity to reinforce his myopic stance.
Updated 29 Nov, 2025 08:51am
