Podcast appearances and mentions of Bina Shah

Today's guest is award winning author and journalist, Bina Shah. Her first sci-fi novel Before She Sleeps was published in 2018, followed by the sequel The Monsoon War in 2023. Bina's work explores women's rights, societal issues, technology, education, and freedom of expression.  Additionally, Bina has authored four novels as well as two collections of short stories. Her work has been translated into several languages including English, Spanish, German, Chinese, Vietnamese, Urdu, Sindhi and Italian. Bina's writing has also been carried in major publications like The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Huffington Post, Dawn, and more. She has won Pakistan's prestigious Agahi Award for excellence in journalism twice. Her short story, The Living Museum, won the Dr. Neila C. Sesachari prize from Weber University's literary journal, Weber - The Contemporary West. And in 2022, she was presented with the insignia of a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, an honorary award granted by the French government.  Join us as we discuss grappling with grief through writing, the nuances of feminism, seeing the world through the western gaze, women in politics, future federations, and A.I You can follow Bina on Instagram at @Bina_Writer or on X @BinaShah. Arcx is a mini series from the Subverse, the podcast of Dark ‘n' Light, a digital space that chronicles the times we live in and reimagines futures with a focus on science, nature, social justice and culture. Follow us on social media @darknlightzine, or visit darknlight.com for episode details and show notes.

Amrita Ghosh and Bhakti Shringarpure tackle South Asia's new fixation: a busty, blue-eyed, blond doll named Barbie. A recent blockbuster American movie about this famous doll has had South Asians swooning over Barbie and showing up swathed in pink at movie theaters, all the while claiming to be smashing the patriarchy! But this fair and lovely doll was not particularly popular when toy giant Mattel launched her in the region in the late eighties. Pakistani writer and journalist Bina Shah weighs in on the class and gender politics around this expensive toy, and critiques the politics of white feminism that has recently sprung up around Barbie. The three ask if there are toys that can instill progressive values in young minds and whether dolls can ever teach us anything other than gender stereotypes.

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John Siddique is best known as a spiritual teacher, poet, and author. He is the founder of Authentic Living, through which he aims to encourage people from all walks of life awaken to what he calls their "true naturalness".Siddique was born in the UK and is not aligned with any particular religion, philosophy, or tradition. Known for his authenticity, humour, and "feet on the ground" wisdom, his work has quietly reached millions of people. He has to date published eight books. His teachings and writings have featured in Time Magazine, The Guardian, Granta, on CNN and the BBC. The Times of India calls him "Rebellious by nature, pure at heart." The Spectator magazine describes him as "A stellar British poet." New York Times correspondent Bina Shah says Siddique is "One of the best poets of our generation." Scottish Poet Laureate Jackie Kay speaks of Siddique's writing as being "A brilliant balancing act."...You can learn more about John here: https://www.authenticliving.life/Thanks for listening! We would love your support so we can keep growing this show! Please sign up to nickbracks.com to receive a free chapter of my book. We would love you to subscribe, review, share and comment on the podcast to help us make a difference!The Move Your Mind book & Audiobook is now Available in stories Australia wide and online globally! You can find free chapters & order here: Move Your Mind Book or on my site: nickbracks.comYou can also sign up to our new Move Your Mind community group here: moveyourmind.me or here: Move Your Mind Community See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bina Shah – The Truman Charities Podcast: A Community of Caring with Jamie Truman Episode 38 Bina Shah. In 2018, Bina founded Project 8p Foundation to accelerate research with the goal of treatment for chromosome 8p heroes like her daughter Karina. Since then, she has fully committed herself to the advancement of clinical and research understanding of rare disorders, in particular neurodevelopmental chromosomal disorders such as the 8p rearrangements. Shifting perspectives from disease specific efforts to innovative approaches that are gene-agnostic and cross disorder is a long term scalable vision of hers. As a result, she is the founding partner of the Commission on Novel Technologies for Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants (CNVs). Her family resides in New York City where Bina earned her B.S. in Finance & Marketing from NYU Stern Business School as well as her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She has over 15 years of experience in finance in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private and public equity investing, real estate development, and property management. Bina leverages her business and entrepreneurial background and network to build bridges to improve efficiencies in a Collaborative Impact model for Team Science. Listen to this uplifting Truman Charities episode with Bina Shah about her business and entrepreneurial background and network to build bridges to improve efficiencies in a Collaborative Impact model for Team Science. Here is what to expect on this week's show: - Bina's personal journey and why there is such a need for education on this rare disease. - Project 8P events where families from all over the world can come together and finally not feel alone - Where Bina sees Project 8p in ten years and how we can help these children Connect with Bina: Website- https://project8p.org Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bina Shah speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “Weeds and Flowers,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Shah talks about how the people she observes and encounters in her life in Karachi, Pakistan, inspire her work in fiction. She also discusses her 2018 feminist dystopian novel Before She Sleeps, and the sequel she's working on now, in addition to her work as a journalist. Bina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories, including the feminist dystopia Before She Sleeps, published in 2018. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and Pakistan's biggest English-language newspaper, Dawn, as well as other international newspapers and journals. Read “Weeds and Flowers” by Bina Shah at thecommononline.org/weeds-and-flowers. Learn more about Bina Shah and her work at thefeministani.wordpress.com, and find her novel Before She Sleeps here. Follow Bina Shah on Twitter at twitter.com/BinaShah. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter @Public_Emily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bina Shah speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “Weeds and Flowers,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Shah talks about how the people she observes and encounters in her life in Karachi, Pakistan, inspire her work in fiction. She also discusses her 2018 feminist dystopian novel Before She Sleeps, and the sequel she’s working on now, in addition to her work as a journalist. Bina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories, including the feminist dystopia Before She Sleeps, published in 2018. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and Pakistan’s biggest English-language newspaper, Dawn, as well as other international newspapers and journals. Read “Weeds and Flowers” by Bina Shah at thecommononline.org/weeds-and-flowers. Learn more about Bina Shah and her work at thefeministani.wordpress.com, and find her novel Before She Sleeps here. Follow Bina Shah on Twitter at twitter.com/BinaShah. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter @Public_Emily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

Bina Shah speaks to managing editor Emily Everett about her short story “Weeds and Flowers,” which appears in Issue 19 of The Common magazine. In this conversation, Shah talks about how the people she observes and encounters in her life in Karachi, Pakistan, inspire her work in fiction. She also discusses her 2018 feminist dystopian novel Before She Sleeps, and the sequel she’s working on now, in addition to her work as a journalist. Bina Shah is a Karachi-based author of five novels and two collections of short stories, including the feminist dystopia Before She Sleeps, published in 2018. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, and Pakistan’s biggest English-language newspaper, Dawn, as well as other international newspapers and journals. Read “Weeds and Flowers” by Bina Shah at thecommononline.org/weeds-and-flowers. Learn more about Bina Shah and her work at thefeministani.wordpress.com, and find her novel Before She Sleeps here. Follow Bina Shah on Twitter at twitter.com/BinaShah. The Common is a print and online literary magazine publishing stories, essays, and poems that deepen our collective sense of place. On our podcast and in our pages, The Common features established and emerging writers from around the world. Read more and subscribe to the magazine at thecommononline.org, and follow us on Twitter @CommonMag. Emily Everett is managing editor of the magazine and host of the podcast. Her stories appear in the Kenyon Review, Electric Literature, Tin House Online, and Mississippi Review. She holds an MA in literature from Queen Mary University of London, and a BA from Smith College. Say hello on Twitter @Public_Emily. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm

From The Story Vault: Bina Shah is a journalist and novelist who lives in Karachi, Pakistan and is one of the country's most talented authors. Her 2009 book Slum Child was a bestseller in Italy. Along with teaching writing at a university level, she is also a regular contributor to The International New York Times, offering her perspective on Pakistan's society, culture, and women's rights. 

"What's it going to take? it all comes down to WHO can we get involved. We have to keep reminding ourselves it's not about problems, it's about solutions." Chromosome 8p is a rare genetic condition with approximately 350 patients identified around the world and counting. In this week's episode Amit sits down with Bina Shah, Founder of Project 8p, innovator and leader in the rare disease community. In 2018, Bina founded Project 8p to accelerate research with the goal of treatment for chromosome 8p heroes like her daughter Karina. Her family resides in New York City where Bina earned her B.S. in Finance & Marketing from NYU Stern Business School as well as her M.B.A. from Columbia University. She has over 15 years of experience in finance in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private and public equity investing, real estate development, and property management.   To learn more about Chromosome 8p and Project 8p, visit: www.Project8p.org

A Pakistani journalist catches the attention of the President after speaking out about the desperate need for women’s representation in media. This week’s essay is read by Shefali Shah, who plays Vartika Chaturvedi in Delhi Crime.

Mit "Die Geschichte der schweigenden Frauen" nimmt die pakistanische Schriftstellerin Bina Shah uns vor dem Hintergrund muslimischer Lebenswelten mit auf eine dystopische Reise in eine womöglich gar nicht so ferne Zukunft, in der Frauen den Aufstand gegen die Herrschaft der Männer proben.Golkonda VerlagISBN 978-3-946503-94-1Aus dem Englischen von Annette Charpentier 323 Seiten20 Euro

Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps (Delphinium Books, 2018) is set in a near-future Pakistan where a repressive patriarchy requires women to take multiple husbands and become full-time baby makers after wars and disease render women devastatingly scarce. A reviewer in the Los Angeles Times called it a “thrilling novel” with “exquisite” social commentary. Before She Sleeps was also among the books recently highlighted in an article in The Atlanticabout “The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia.” Before She Sleeps focuses on a group of women who’ve found a modicum of freedom by hiding underground with the assistance of powerful men, for whom they provide clandestine but non-sexual companionship. The book explores the boundaries of their freedom through an eastern and Islamic lens. “Western readers… are expecting some fantastic like Hunger Games-type scenario where the women come out as warriors and just smash the patriarchy. Feminism in my part of the world, in the Middle East and South Asia is a lot more subtle. We’re dealing with tremendous amounts of misogyny and … gender-based violence. So I think what women over the centuries have learned is not to directly confront that misogyny … but to subvert it, to go around it,” Shah says. The risks facing outspoken women in Pakistan today are real. Shah’s friend, Sabeen Mahmud, was murdered in 2015. Mahmud had founded a popular café-gallery and meeting space in Karachi that seeks to foster conversations about human rights, diversity, and other topics that are controversial in Pakistan. After the murder, Shah wrote with greater urgency, channeling all her “terrible feelings” over Mahmud’s assassination into the novel. While some might call Mahmud and Shah activists, Shah resists the label. “We feel like we’re just out there doing our work and saying what needs to be said and telling the truth about what we see in our lives around us and if that’s activism, then OK,” she says. Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. Follow him on Twitter: @robwolfbooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps (Delphinium Books, 2018) is set in a near-future Pakistan where a repressive patriarchy requires women to take multiple husbands and become full-time baby makers after wars and disease render women devastatingly scarce. A reviewer in the Los Angeles Times called it a “thrilling novel” with “exquisite” social commentary. Before She Sleeps was also among the books recently highlighted in an article in The Atlanticabout “The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia.” Before She Sleeps focuses on a group of women who’ve found a modicum of freedom by hiding underground with the assistance of powerful men, for whom they provide clandestine but non-sexual companionship. The book explores the boundaries of their freedom through an eastern and Islamic lens. “Western readers… are expecting some fantastic like Hunger Games-type scenario where the women come out as warriors and just smash the patriarchy. Feminism in my part of the world, in the Middle East and South Asia is a lot more subtle. We’re dealing with tremendous amounts of misogyny and … gender-based violence. So I think what women over the centuries have learned is not to directly confront that misogyny … but to subvert it, to go around it,” Shah says. The risks facing outspoken women in Pakistan today are real. Shah’s friend, Sabeen Mahmud, was murdered in 2015. Mahmud had founded a popular café-gallery and meeting space in Karachi that seeks to foster conversations about human rights, diversity, and other topics that are controversial in Pakistan. After the murder, Shah wrote with greater urgency, channeling all her “terrible feelings” over Mahmud’s assassination into the novel. While some might call Mahmud and Shah activists, Shah resists the label. “We feel like we’re just out there doing our work and saying what needs to be said and telling the truth about what we see in our lives around us and if that’s activism, then OK,” she says. Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. Follow him on Twitter: @robwolfbooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bina Shah’s Before She Sleeps (Delphinium Books, 2018) is set in a near-future Pakistan where a repressive patriarchy requires women to take multiple husbands and become full-time baby makers after wars and disease render women devastatingly scarce. A reviewer in the Los Angeles Times called it a “thrilling novel” with “exquisite” social commentary. Before She Sleeps was also among the books recently highlighted in an article in The Atlanticabout “The Remarkable Rise of the Feminist Dystopia.” Before She Sleeps focuses on a group of women who’ve found a modicum of freedom by hiding underground with the assistance of powerful men, for whom they provide clandestine but non-sexual companionship. The book explores the boundaries of their freedom through an eastern and Islamic lens. “Western readers… are expecting some fantastic like Hunger Games-type scenario where the women come out as warriors and just smash the patriarchy. Feminism in my part of the world, in the Middle East and South Asia is a lot more subtle. We’re dealing with tremendous amounts of misogyny and … gender-based violence. So I think what women over the centuries have learned is not to directly confront that misogyny … but to subvert it, to go around it,” Shah says. The risks facing outspoken women in Pakistan today are real. Shah’s friend, Sabeen Mahmud, was murdered in 2015. Mahmud had founded a popular café-gallery and meeting space in Karachi that seeks to foster conversations about human rights, diversity, and other topics that are controversial in Pakistan. After the murder, Shah wrote with greater urgency, channeling all her “terrible feelings” over Mahmud’s assassination into the novel. While some might call Mahmud and Shah activists, Shah resists the label. “We feel like we’re just out there doing our work and saying what needs to be said and telling the truth about what we see in our lives around us and if that’s activism, then OK,” she says. Rob Wolf is the host of New Books in Science Fiction and the author of The Alternate Universe and The Escape. Follow him on Twitter: @robwolfbooks Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Epigraph Welcome to Episode 18, our first ever LIVE show, recorded on September 28th at King's Books in Tacoma, WA. We rapid-fire interviewed three booksellers and two authors. Surprisingly, the audio is better than episodes recorded in the comfort of our homes. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, our website, or subscribe using your podcatcher of choice. Support the show! All books in our show notes link to Indiebound, a website that connects you with your local independent bookstore. Purchases made through our affiliate links help fund Drunk Booksellers, so you can support your favorite indie bookstore and your favorite podcasting booksellers. #win If you want to get our show notes delivered directly to your inbox—with all the books mentioned on the podcast and links to the books we discuss—sign up for our email newsletter. This episode is sponsored by Soft Skull, Counterpoint, and Catapult. Special thanks to Joe and Stephanie Douglas, Big Hair Studios, Allen Watke, Phil Heaven and the Midnight Mystery Players, and George Kaas for the equipment loan that made this recording possible. And of course thanks to Sam Kaas (who longtime listeners may recognize from Episode 7) our production manager without whom this whole episode would not have been amplified, recorded, nor kept on track. Chapter I: [2:51] In Which We Order a Mistress, Discuss Female Rage, and Are Def Profesh at This Whole Live Show Thing   Kim's Drinking: Hop Valley Citrus Mistress Emma's Drinking: Elysian Men's Room Kim's Reading: The Book of Dust 1: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman Emma's Reading & Excited About: Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Brittney C Cooper Good and Mad by Rebecca Traister Emma is really into female rage right now, nbd. Kim's Excited About: Vanishing Twins: A Marriage by Leah Dieterich also mentioned, And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready by Meaghan O'Connell because (spoiler alert) we interview both authors later in the episode! Chapter II: [7:25] In Which We Talk About Big Books and Definitely Lie, Kim Gushes Over Leah Dieterich, and We Suggest People Stop Listening to Us and Buy Books Instead sweet pea Flaherty, owner of King's Books in Tacoma, WA For the record, A Room of One's Own is still a feminist bookstore King's Books has fourteen book clubs, including one that only reads books about cults and one that only reads books about medical issues. They also have such unconventional events as virtual reality film showings and 80s workout nights (#Cher). sweet pea's Reading: Before She Sleeps by Bina Shah sweet pea's Excited About: Training School for Negro Girls by Camille Acker Nanny Helen Burroughs (she's a person, not a book—but sweet pea wishes there was a book about her) sweet pea's Desert Island Pick: a book large enough to act as a sun hat Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston sweet pea's Bookseller Confession: "being a bookstore owner and event planner and bookkeeper and etc... that I don't have a lot of time to read" Uh, can all the booksellers whose "confession" this is raise their hands? sweet pea's Favorite Bookstore: a bookstore in the back of an antique store in Knoxville, TN (if you know what bookstore this is, tweet us!) Dixon Street Bookshop in Fayetteville, AR Find sweet pea On the Internets: Facebook Twitter Instagram King's Books Facebook Twitter Instagram Facebook doesn't let you have "queer" in your name and challenged sweet pea's legal name twice Our first guest author, Leah Dieterich, is the author of Vanishing Twins (Soft Skull) Leah's Reading: Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man by Thomas Page McBee This is an artistic rendition of Kim's reaction to Leah's "what are you reading" answer: The back covers of Soft Skull's galleys are on point:         Leah's Favorite Bookstore(s): Skylight Books in Los Angeles, CA Powell's in Portland, OR Find Leah on the Internets: Facebook Twitter Instagram Chapter III: [22:03] In Which We Discuss Sex With Frog Men, Realize America Is Doing Bookstores Wrong, and We Make the Audience Curse In Unison Ariana Paliobagis, owner of Country Bookshelf in Bozeman, MT Ariana's Reading: Mrs. Caliban by Rachel Ingalls "a woman falls in love with a frog man; [he] shows up at her door... and she takes him in, in all the ways" Ariana's Excited About: Trinity by Louisa Hall (also mentioned, Speak by Louisa Hall) Ariana's Station Eleven Pick: What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets by Michael J Sandel We are impressed by Ariana's practicality and thus let her, and the audience, in on our secret post-apocalypse library.  Ariana's Impossible Handsell: English, August: An Indian Story by Upamanyu Chatterjee (also mentioned, My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh) Ariana's Favorite Bookstore: Librairie Actes Sud (it's in France, be jealous) Find Ariana On the Internets: Facebook Twitter Instagram Country Bookshelf Facebook Twitter Instagram Our second guest author is Meaghan O'Connell, author of And Now We Have Everything (Little, Brown and Company) Photo by Kelly Searle Meaghan's Reading: Hot Milk by Deborah Levy Meaghan's Favorite Bookstore: WORD (a bookstore that brings true love [Meaghan and Dustin, Emma and Kim] together) Find Meaghan On the Internets Facebook Twitter Instagram Chapter IV: [38:38] In Which We Save Quarters to Buy Bookstores, Discuss Tricky Toddlers Who Sit On Toilets for Books, and Wrap This Shit Up  Jenny Cohen, co-owner of Waucoma Bookstore in Hood River, OR  Jenny's Reading: Oh Crap! Potty Training: Everything Modern Parents Need to Know to Do It Once and Do It Right by Jamie Glowacki Jenny's Excited About: Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family by Mitchell Jackson (out March 5, 2019) Jenny's Wild Pick: Juliet by Anne Fortier Fun fact, Waucoma Bookstore is only about 20 miles away from the Pacific Crest Trail where Cheryl Strayed ended her Wild trip. Quick plug for Books & Whatnot, a newsletter by the wonderful Beth Golay Jenny's Book for Booksellers: Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas Jenny's Favorite Bookstore: Burnside Powell's in Portland, OR (but before the remodel) Find Jenny on the Internets: Facebook Twitter Waucoma Bookstore Facebook Twitter Instagram Epilogue In which You See Us Shop for Booze and We Tell You Where to Find Us on the Internets Twitter: @drunkbookseller Litsy: @drunkbooksellers Facebook Instagram Email Newsletter Website Emma tweets from @thebibliot and is working on a newsletter where she writes about books. Kim occasionally tweets from @finaleofseem, but not enough to justify you bothering to follow her. Subscribe and rate us on iTunes!

WBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with a Pakistani writer about the growing women's movement there.

Kathryn interviews journalist Bina Shah, Pakistan's internationally renowned author of “Before She Sleeps: A Novel”. Conjuring Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Shah takes the parable of women selected for breeding to a terrifying new level. In her dystopian thriller, women in the Middle East and Asia have had their numbers drastically reduced by war, gender selection and disease. The consequence is that women must take multiple husbands in order to produce more female children. Not all women agree to submit. Kathryn also interview Thomas Moore PhD, NYTimes bestselling author of “Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Towards Meaning and Joy”. Dr. Moore has been a monk, a musician, a university professor and a psychotherapist. In contrast to the perception that aging means diminishment, Dr. Moore regards aging as the process by which we become more fully ourselves: a series of initiations rather than losses. He explores how to find new meaning, vigor, and connection in aging.

Kathryn interviews journalist Bina Shah, Pakistan's internationally renowned author of “Before She Sleeps: A Novel”. Conjuring Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Shah takes the parable of women selected for breeding to a terrifying new level. In her dystopian thriller, women in the Middle East and Asia have had their numbers drastically reduced by war, gender selection and disease. The consequence is that women must take multiple husbands in order to produce more female children. Not all women agree to submit. Kathryn also interview Thomas Moore PhD, NYTimes bestselling author of “Ageless Soul: The Lifelong Journey Towards Meaning and Joy”. Dr. Moore has been a monk, a musician, a university professor and a psychotherapist. In contrast to the perception that aging means diminishment, Dr. Moore regards aging as the process by which we become more fully ourselves: a series of initiations rather than losses. He explores how to find new meaning, vigor, and connection in aging.

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She's a journalist and contemporary novelist from Karachi, Pakistan. She's authored four English novels and two collections of short stories. As regular contributor to the International New York Times, she is a provocative and bold commentator for the international press on Pakistan’s society, culture, and women’s rights. Her critically acclaimed 2014 novel, A Season for Martyrs, was built around the return of Benazir Bhutto to Karachi to run for the highest political office in Pakistan, after 8 yrs of exile. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an alumna of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. Bina Shah joins us today to talk about her soon-to-be released (Aug. 7th) Dystopian Novel, Before She Sleeps.

She's a journalist and contemporary novelist from Karachi, Pakistan. She's authored four English novels and two collections of short stories. As regular contributor to the International New York Times, she is a provocative and bold commentator for the international press on Pakistan’s society, culture, and women’s rights. Her critically acclaimed 2014 novel, A Season for Martyrs, was built around the return of Benazir Bhutto to Karachi to run for the highest political office in Pakistan, after 8 yrs of exile. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an alumna of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. Bina Shah joins us today to talk about her soon-to-be released (Aug. 7th) Dystopian Novel, Before She Sleeps.

She's a journalist and contemporary novelist from Karachi, Pakistan. She's authored four English novels and two collections of short stories. As regular contributor to the International New York Times, she is a provocative and bold commentator for the international press on Pakistan’s society, culture, and women’s rights. Her critically acclaimed 2014 novel, A Season for Martyrs, was built around the return of Benazir Bhutto to Karachi to run for the highest political office in Pakistan, after 8 yrs of exile. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an alumna of the International Writers Program at the University of Iowa. Bina Shah joins us today to talk about her soon-to-be released (Aug. 7th) Dystopian Novel, Before She Sleeps.

CJ speaks with award winning Pakistani writer and journalist Bina Shah about the sinister motives and intent behind US President Donald Trump’s twitter attack on Pakistan, and the extraordinary sacrifices here country has made in supporting the US War on Terror. Please help grow this podcast by contributing as little as $1 per month at www.patreon.com/channeltherage

Join me and New York Times Columnist Bina Shah for a Polite Conversation about Feminism (Islamic and intersectional) , Religion, Cultural appropriation, Sam Harris and Dawkins. Here is a link to the poll i mention: https://twitter.com/NiceMangos/status/738395690515222528 Pls note: this conversation was recorded before Orlando. If you think this show could sound better, pls support the podcast via patreon so I can buy better equipment!

Do you ever wonder how arranged marriages work? Today we’ll get the dish from a journalist and Pakistani native. Stay tuned for an intriguing and interesting conversation … on this edition of Frank Relationships. … Read more about this episode...