Rafia Zakaria

Rafia Zakaria is an attorney, a political philosopher and the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (Beacon 2015). She is a columnist for Dawn Pakistan and Al Jazeera America.

The Feminism of Resilience: Shirin Neshat at the Hirshhorn

The exhibition "Facing History: Shirin Neshat" provokes a more complex conversation about Iran and the United States than has been possible in decades past....

RAFIA ZAKARIA

ART & ARCHITECTURE

Defining the Dissident

Hirsi Ali is not a dissident — she effectively deploys her past for maximum gain in the divisive political realities of her present....

RAFIA ZAKARIA

RELIGION

POLITICS

Writing While Muslim: The Freedom to Be Offended

Why am I told that by opposing the free speech award, I fail to prove myself as the "good" Muslim, vocally secular and eager to clap hard for Charlie Hebdo?...

RAFIA ZAKARIA

POLITICS