Afiya Shehrbano Zia Explained

Afiya Shehrbano Zia
Birth Name:Afiya Shehrbano Zia
Native Name:عافیہ شہربانو ضیا
Nationality:Pakistani
Alma Mater:University of Toronto, University of York
Occupation:Feminist researcher, writer
Known For:Author of "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan" (SAP-2018)

Afiya Shehrbano Zia (Urdu: عافیہ شہربانو ضیا) is a Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist based in Karachi.[1] She is the author of "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan"(Sussex Academic Press, 2018)[2] [3] and several published articles on women, secularism and religion.[4] [5] She is active member of Women's Action Forum.[6] [7]

Biography

Zia got her master's degree in 1992, in Women's Studies from the University of York, UK.[8] Zia has a PhD degree in Women and Gender Studies from the University of Toronto.[9] [10]

Zia is an independent researcher. From 1993 to 1997 she worked for projects on women and development in non-governmental, wrote papers and edited many books on women's issues. In Karachi, she teaches sociology in college and writes regularly for the newspapers. She is founding member of an academic group in Karachi and appears on different TV channels as commentator on socio-political topics.[11]

She has taught at University of Toronto and in Habib University for a semester, where she designed a course on Women, Work and Islam.[12]

Publications

She is the author of many books and essays including "Sex Crime in the Islamic Context" (1994, ASR),[13] "Voicing Demands" (Zed Books, 2014) and "Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia” (SUNY Press, 2015).[14] Her essays have been published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics[15] and Feminist Review.[16] Her book, Faith and Feminism in Pakistan, talks about achievements, history and threats faced by the secular feminist movements in Pakistan in recent years. Zia attempts to recognise the potential of these movements in the country.[17] [18]

Zia has written columns in Dawn News,[19] Nayadaur,[20] The News International,[21] openDemocracy,[22] The Friday Times,[23] TNS- The News On Sunday,[24] Economic and Political Weekly,[25] The Express Tribune,[26] Daily Times (Pakistan)[27] and The Guardian.[28]

Notes and References

  1. News: KARACHI: More citizens upset with beach project . DAWN.COM . 28 February 2007 . en.
  2. Web site: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan . www.sussex-academic.com . 4 December 2020 . 11 November 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201111201049/http://www.sussex-academic.com/sa/titles/womens_studies/Zia.htm . dead .
  3. News: Zaidi . S. Akbar . Celebrating women academics . DAWN.COM . 22 January 2018 . en.
  4. News: Jalil . Xari . Zia regime painted 'open' woman as immoral . DAWN.COM . 13 January 2019 . en.
  5. News: Paracha . Nadeem F. . SMOKERS' CORNER: THE HOPE OF THE APOLOGIST . DAWN.COM . 1 September 2019 . en.
  6. Web site: Professor Dr. Afiya S. Zia . Trust for Democratic Education and Accountability (TDEA) . 4 December 2020 . 2 September 2021 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210902144407/https://tdea.pk/dt_team/professor-dr-afiya-s-zia/ . dead .
  7. News: Inam . Moniza . Women empowerment: The spring of hope . DAWN.COM . 14 February 2016 . en.
  8. Web site: DOCTORAL RESEARCH SEMINAR .
  9. Web site: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan; Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy? Talk by Afiya S. Zia . T2F A Project of PeaceNiche . 5 June 2018.
  10. News: Reporter . The Newspaper's Staff . 'Women are silenced through laws, traditions' . DAWN.COM . 5 October 2019 . en.
  11. Web site: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Afiya Zia and Gayatri Spivak in conversation . en-CAC . 12 February 2013.
  12. Web site: SARC Event: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy . www.southasia.ox.ac.uk . en.
  13. Web site: Contributors . Manchester University Press . 18 August 2020.
  14. Web site: Contesting Feminisms . www.sunypress.edu.
  15. Zia . Afiya Shehrbano . Performance anxiety: women's sexed bodies in Pakistan . International Feminist Journal of Politics . 3 July 2017 . 19 . 3 . 296–310 . 10.1080/14616742.2016.1207464 . 147962188 . 1461-6742.
  16. Zia . Afiya Shehrbano . The Reinvention of Feminism in Pakistan . Feminist Review . 1 February 2009 . 91 . 29–46 . 10.1057/fr.2008.48 . 145073625 . en.
  17. News: Wattoo . Aneeqa M. . NON-FICTION: SECULAR SISTERHOODS IN PAKISTAN . DAWN.COM . 2 September 2018 . en.
  18. Web site: A Panel Discussion on 'Faith and Feminism in Pakistan' .
  19. Web site: Afiya S. Zia - DAWN.COM . www.dawn.com . en.
  20. Web site: Zia . Afiya Shehrbano . Afiya Shehrbano Zia columns – Articles by Afiya Shehrbano Zia . Naya Daur.
  21. Web site: Afiya Shehrbano:Writer – The News International: Latest News Breaking, Pakistan News . www.thenews.com.pk.
  22. Web site: Author Page . openDemocracy . en.
  23. Web site: Zia . Afiya Shehrbano . Understanding Spatial and Historic Sexualities . The Friday Times.
  24. Web site: Afiya Shehrbano Zia:The News on Sunday (TNS) » Weekly Magazine – The News International . www.thenews.com.pk . en.
  25. Web site: Afiya Shehrbano Zia . Economic and Political Weekly . en . 5 June 2015.
  26. Web site: Afiya Shehrbano Zia, Author at The Express Tribune . The Express Tribune . en.
  27. Web site: Afiya Shehrbano Zia Archives . Daily Times.
  28. News: Pakistan's war on polio workers Afiya Shehrbano Zia . the Guardian . 3 January 2013 . en.

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