Nazir Hussain is Professor of International Relations and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. He was Director School of Politics and International Relations (SPIR), Quaid-i-Azam University (2017-2020); he has been associated with the University since 1985. He has also served as Senior Research Fellow on Middle East at the Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (2001-2002) and has

Jan Eliot is the creator of the internationally syndicated cartoon strip ‘Stone Soup’. Eliot is a graduate of the University of Oregon Honors College in Eugene, Oregon. Her cartoons are exhibited at the Charles Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa and The San Francisco Museum of Cartoon Art, where her work is part of their permanent collections; the Library of Congress

Inam Nadeem is a poet-writer, critic, and translator. An exponent of the modern Urdu ghazal, his first collection of Urdu ghazals entitled, Dar-e-Khwab (Gateway of Dreams) was published in 2003. He has translated Rabisankar Bal’s novel Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell, from English to Urdu and is nowadays translating Rabisankar Bal’s A Mirrored Life into Urdu. His current Urdu translation work,

Rania Hafez is an academic and writer. Currently leading the MA Education at the University of Greenwich, Rania also co-chairs the London Learning & Skills Research Network and was previously non-executive Director at the Institute for Learning. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the Muslim Institute. In addition to her academic work, Rania is a regular

Bina Shah is a Karachi-based author and novelist. Her novels, A Season for Martyrs and Before She Sleeps, a feminist dystopian novel, have received critical acclaim. A regular contributor to The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and The Huffington Post, Bina has been a frequent guest on the BBC. She has contributed essays and op-eds to Granta, The Independent, and

A poet, actor, comedian, humanitarian, and social worker. For fifteen years, she has done stand-up comedy mostly in the USA, UK, the Gulf, and Pakistan for charity fundraisers and has acted in films (most recently Cake) and TV serials. She has also worked in a web series ‘Ek jhooti love story’ with Mehreen Jabbar and is currently shooting ‘Femme fatales

A poet and writer and author of six Balochi poetry books, Ishaque Khamosh is the author of a Balochi, Urdu, English Dictionary; a TV host; stage moderator; Member of the Arts Council of Pakistan Karachi; and Press Secretary of the Balochi Music Promoters Society.

Anjum Altaf was Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). He is the author of Transgressions: Poems Inspired by Faiz Ahmed Faiz (Delhi 2019; Karachi 2020; Kindle 2021) and co-author (with Amit Basole) of Thinking with Ghalib: Poetry for a New Generation (forthcoming 2021). Dr Altaf manages ‘The South Asian

A writer/poet in Urdu and Balochi and author of two books, Imran Saqib is the translator of A Children’s History of Balochistan (authored by Hamida Khuhro) in Balochi. He is a short filmmaker and a human rights activist.

Ayesha Razzaque has a doctorate in Educational Administration from the College of Education, Michigan State University (MSU). She received her masters degree in the same from MSU. Ayesha benefits from ten plus years of experience supporting education development in a variety of social and political contexts, specifically in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She writes regularly for the The News International and