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Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul in 1982. She is the author of Songs of Blood and Sword (Vintage) and The Shadow of the Crescent Moon (Penguin), now available in paperback. She currently lives in Karachi.

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FictionFiction | The Online Edition
Fiction | The Online Edition

The Disappearing

Fatima Bhutto

‘I have gone to the forest to lie among the moss and sleep under a canopy of trees. I have gone to the forest to root among the soil and listen to the birds.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Fatima Bhutto on the Refugee Crisis

Fatima Bhutto

‘In a connected world, how can anyone close their doors?’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Fatima Bhutto | My Other Thing

Fatima Bhutto

‘If you happen to be friends with one of the world’s most fearsome food critics, don’t cook for him.’

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Fiction | Issue 129 padlock

Blasphemy

Fatima Bhutto

The tourists are gone. They’ve fled to Islamabad, along with the landlords and the hoteliers and the battalions of police that used to defend them, and certainty has left with them.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 112 padlock

Mangho Pir

Fatima Bhutto

‘Although they lived in the shadows, they refused to go unnoticed.’

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