Rafia Zakaria is an attorney, political philosopher, human rights activist, and author of two books:
The Upstairs Wife (selected as one of the Most Important Nonfiction Books of the Year by Newsweek) and
Veil, part of the Bloomsbury Object Lessons series. Her writing on global feminist and immigrant issues has appeared in
The Baffler and
DAWN (Pakistan's largest English-language daily), where she writes regular columns, as well as in the
New York Times,
Guardian,
New Republic,
Nation,
CNN Opinion and more. Rafia is currently a Research Scholar at the Colin Powell Center for Civic Leadership at City College New York. Born and raised in Karachi, she now lives in Indiana. Find her on Twitter @
rafiazakaria.
