Ghazala Rahman Rafiq | |
Native Name: | غزالہ رحمان رفیق |
Birth Place: | Pakistan |
Alma Mater: | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
Occupation: | Assistant professor in Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Women's rights Activist |
Ghazala Rahman Rafiq (Urdu: غزالہ رحمان رفیق) is an educationist, and social reformer from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. She is daughter of the eminent Hassanally A. Rahman. [1] She was one of the founder members of Women's Action Forum in 1981.[2] [3] [4]
Rafiq did her Ph.D in Education from University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.[5] [6] After completing her PhD, Rafiq as an academic[7] was interested to preserve Sindhi language. She is director of The Sindh Abhyas Academy (SAA) which is housed at Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST), Karachi.[8] [9] [10] [11] The institute offers education for the subject of Sindh Studies including Sindh’s history, geography, culture, economics, anthropology and philosophy for undergraduate and graduate degrees.
In addition to that she is a freelance writer and has written numerous articles on Education Policy in Sindh and Pakistan.[12] She has also written in Dawn News,[13] The Friday Times[14] and The Express Tribune.[15]