Bina Shah
Bina Shah is a Pakistani writer from Karachi, known for her novels, short stories, and columns in the New York Times. Her recent feminist dystopian novel, Before She Sleeps, was published in August 2018 by Delphinium Books.
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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
When We Returned to Pakistan
Bina Shah
Bina Shah on growing up in Pakistan. ‘Culture shock was what they called it in those days, but to me it felt like a kidnapping.’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
The Ghost Children of the North
Bina Shah
‘‘I asked him what the four seasons of the year were’, she says, ‘and he replied, ‘sardi, garmi, hangama, hartal’’. (Winter, summer, riots, strikes.)’
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Power Failure
Bina Shah
‘And it’s not just the heat – it’s the humidity, that succubus that pushes the heat index up by ten degrees, makes the roads shimmer with sultry mirages.’
