Samira Shackle
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    • Bluesky
  • 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

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