Shah, Bina

Bina Shah has recently become a regular contributor to the "International New York Times". She is a Pakistani writer who is a frequent guest on the BBC. She has contributed essays to "Granta", "The Independent", and "The Guardian" and writes a monthly column for Dawn, the top English-language newspaper in Pakistan. She holds degrees from Wellesley College and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and is an alumna of the University of Iowa's International Writers Workshop. Her novel "Slum Child" was a bestseller in Italy, and she has been published in English, Spanish, German and Italian. "...