RUBINA SAIGOL is currently an independent researcher based in Lahore. She has authored and edited several books and papers in English and Urdu on education, nationalism, the state, ethnicity, religious radicalism, terrorism, feminism and human rights for academic journals in India and internationally. Among her many published works are: Engendering the Nation-state; Aspects of Women and Development; Deconstructing Terrorism: Discourse and Death in Pakistan; and, Talibanisation of Pakistan: Myths and Realities.
Rafia Zakaria is a columnist for Dawn (Pakistan) and the Boston Review’s ‘Reading Other Women’ Series. She is the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan (Bea
Dr. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Loughborough University, UK. Her publications include Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bho
Shahnaz Rouse teaches Sociology at Sarah Lawrence College, New York. She is the author of various articles on women, religion, nationalism and the State which have been published in South Asia, the
Amar Farooqui is Professor of History, University of Delhi. He taught history for many years at Hans Raj College, Delhi; and has been Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. His publi
