Afiya Shehrbano Zia

Afiya Shehrbano Zia (Urdu: عافیہ شہربانو ضیا) is a Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist based in Karachi.[1] She is the author of "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan"(Sussex Academic Press, 2018)[2][3] and several published articles on women, secularism and religion.[4][5] She is active member of Women's Action Forum.[6][7]

Afiya Shehrbano Zia
عافیہ شہربانو ضیا
Born
Afiya Shehrbano Zia
NationalityPakistani
Alma materUniversity of Toronto, University of York
OccupationFeminist researcher, writer
Known forAuthor of "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan" (SAP-2018)

Biography

Zia got her Masters degree in 1992,[8] in Women's Studies from the University of York, UK.[9] Zia has a PhD degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.[10][11]

Zia is an independent researcher. From 1993 to 1997 she worked for projects on women and development in non-governmental, wrote papers and edited many books on women's issues. In Karachi, she teaches sociology in college and writes regularly for the newspapers. She is founding member of an academic group in Karachi and appears on different TV channels as commentator on socio-political topics.[12]

She has taught at University of Toronto and in Habib University for a semester, where she designed a course on Women, Work and Islam.[13]

Publications

She is the author of many books and essays including "Sex Crime in the Islamic Context" (1994, ASR),[14] "Voicing Demands" (Zed Books, 2014) and "Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia” (SUNY Press, 2015).[15] Her essays have been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics[8] and Feminist Review.[16] Her book, Faith and Feminism in Pakistan, talks about achievements, history and threats faced by the secular feminist movements in Pakistan in recent years. Zia attempts to recognise the potential of these movements in the country.[17][18]

Zia has written columns in Dawn News,[19] Nayadaur,[20] The News International,[21] openDemocracy,[22] The Friday Times,[23] TNS- The News On Sunday,[24] Economic and Political Weekly,[25] The Express Tribune,[26] Daily Times (Pakistan)[27] and The Guardian.[28]

References
  1. "KARACHI: More citizens upset with beach project". DAWN.COM. 28 February 2007.
  2. "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan". www.sussex-academic.com.
  3. Zaidi, S. Akbar (22 January 2018). "Celebrating women academics". DAWN.COM.
  4. Jalil, Xari (13 January 2019). "Zia regime painted 'open' woman as immoral". DAWN.COM.
  5. Paracha, Nadeem F. (1 September 2019). "SMOKERS' CORNER: THE HOPE OF THE APOLOGIST". DAWN.COM.
  6. "Professor Dr. Afiya S. Zia". Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA).
  7. Inam, Moniza (14 February 2016). "Women empowerment: The spring of hope". DAWN.COM.
  8. Zia, Afiya Shehrbano (3 July 2017). "Performance anxiety: women's sexed bodies in Pakistan". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 19 (3): 296–310. doi:10.1080/14616742.2016.1207464. ISSN 1461-6742.
  9. "DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINAR" (PDF).
  10. "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan; Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy? Talk by Afiya S. Zia". T2F | A Project of PeaceNiche. 5 June 2018.
  11. Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (5 October 2019). "'Women are silenced through laws, traditions'". DAWN.COM.
  12. "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Afiya Zia and Gayatri Spivak in conversation". 12 February 2013.
  13. "SARC Event: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy". www.southasia.ox.ac.uk.
  14. "Contributors". Manchester University Press. 18 August 2020.
  15. "Contesting Feminisms". www.sunypress.edu.
  16. Zia, Afiya Shehrbano (1 February 2009). "The Reinvention of Feminism in Pakistan:". Feminist Review. doi:10.1057/fr.2008.48.
  17. Wattoo, Aneeqa M. (2 September 2018). "NON-FICTION: SECULAR SISTERHOODS IN PAKISTAN". DAWN.COM.
  18. "A Panel Discussion on 'Faith and Feminism in Pakistan'".
  19. "Afiya S. Zia - DAWN.COM". www.dawn.com.
  20. Zia, Afiya Shehrbano. "Afiya Shehrbano Zia columns – Articles by Afiya Shehrbano Zia". Naya Daur.
  21. "Afiya Shehrbano:Writer – The News International: Latest News Breaking, Pakistan News". www.thenews.com.pk.
  22. "Author Page". openDemocracy.
  23. Zia, Afiya Shehrbano. "Understanding Spatial and Historic Sexualities". The Friday Times.
  24. "Afiya Shehrbano Zia:The News on Sunday (TNS) » Weekly Magazine – The News International". www.thenews.com.pk.
  25. "Afiya Shehrbano Zia". Economic and Political Weekly. 5 June 2015.
  26. "Afiya Shehrbano Zia, Author at The Express Tribune". The Express Tribune.
  27. "Afiya Shehrbano Zia Archives". Daily Times.
  28. "Pakistan's war on polio workers | Afiya Shehrbano Zia". the Guardian. 3 January 2013.
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