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22.05.20
Karachi’s Unknown Dead
23.12.19
Recent writing
13.11.19
Student mental health
17.04.19
Saving mothers
27.03.19
Facebook blackmail
14.12.18
Pakistani politics
10.12.18
From Our Own Correspondent
30.08.18
Curing violence
26.06.18
I’m writing a book!
21.06.18
Investigating war crimes
18.06.18
Recent writing on Pakistan
15.05.18
More from the Middle East
14.02.18
Who were Islamic State?
13.12.17
Reframing gender violence
01.11.17
Recent writing
08.09.17
The Trojan Horse affair
31.08.17
Remembering Partition
28.08.17
Activism and hope in the Syrian crisis
28.06.17
Schools in Lebanon
28.06.17
Attacks on free speech
27.06.17
Tumultuous Britain
21.06.17
In Gwadar
24.04.17
The Things I Would Tell You
16.04.17
Karachi’s ambulance drivers
23.12.16
Leaving the EDL
20.12.16
Britain, women and integration
11.10.16
Bethnal Green
11.10.16
Pakistan’s madrasas
05.09.16
UK fallout
30.06.16
Brexit Britain
30.06.16
Pakistan’s educated militants
14.06.16
Female jihadis in Pakistan
25.05.16
Talking at the Barbican
10.05.16
Travels in Pakistan
23.02.16
Recent scribblings
16.02.16
Cuts to ESOL
06.01.16
Best of 2015
21.12.15
Recent writing
16.12.15
Political periods
30.11.15
Recent work
10.11.15
I Call Myself a Feminist
28.10.15
Richard Beeston Bursary 2015
28.10.15
Karachi Vice
22.10.15
Saudi suffragettes
15.10.15
A deadly battle of ideas
01.10.15
Bangladeshi secularists under attack
01.10.15
UK politics and the refugee crisis: some recent work
27.09.15
The Song of the Shirt: review
18.08.15
Naz Shah: “The victory is my mother’s, too”
30.07.15
A few links
10.06.15
Issues at religious free schools
22.05.15
Talking and writing
08.01.15
Recent work
20.12.14
Sexual violence in India
13.11.14
Recent talking
24.10.14
The history of women’s football
16.10.14
“Deradicalisation” in Britain?
30.09.14
Scotland decides
28.09.14
Kenya’s Westgate survivors
11.09.14
Somalia’s returning diaspora
08.09.14
Recent work
27.08.14
The “Trojan Horse” scandal
23.08.14
People smuggling and border policy
26.06.14
Somalia’s women politicians
21.06.14
Kenya’s coastal terror threats
17.06.14
The Papers
13.06.14
Karachi airport under attack
07.05.14
Jailed journalists
02.05.14
The UK and Syria’s refugees
20.04.14
Karachi’s endangered architecture
10.04.14
The Muslim Brotherhood in London
01.04.14
Acid violence: increasing?
31.03.14
European fighters in Syria
27.03.14
The Ahmadiyya: global persecution
26.03.14
Recent work
16.03.14
Book reviews
14.03.14
Southbank Centre’s WOW festival
28.02.14
War in the Central African Republic
28.01.14
Recent work
26.01.14
MHP 30 to Watch
18.01.14
How legal aid cuts are hitting the vulnerable
12.01.14
Karachi’s “Dirty Harry”
03.01.14
Highlights of 2013
20.12.13
Talking and writing
17.12.13
The MQM’s London base
05.12.13
Arab women’s double revolution
04.12.13
Recent work
15.11.13
Islam and feminism
07.11.13
“My journey into a nightmare war”
07.11.13
“My journey into a nightmare war”
06.11.13
A few links
06.11.13
A few links
28.10.13
Domestic slavery in the UK
08.10.13
The “Islamophobia industry”
07.10.13
Writing and speaking
27.09.13
Tragedy in Peshawar
16.09.13
France’s trouble with headscarves
16.09.13
The other Guantanamo
13.09.13
Pakistan’s new generation
29.08.13
Recent work