Bina Shah
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Pakistani writer. Author of Before She Sleeps and The Monsoon War. Current project: Feministani: a collection of essays about the women's movement in Pakistan
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Thank you for this,
@MargaretAtwood
. I'm truly honored by your words.
Female-centered
#Dystopia
from
#Pakistan
: Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah
@harpercollins
Fascinating new angle on "emotional work"!
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Girls on their way to school in Nepal. No bridge, no other way to get there. Bravest girls in the world.
http://t.co/YdaTvTJwQo
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LISTEN UP:
Pakistan passed two historical laws today:
One criminalizing acid attacks
The other is a transgender protection law.
AMAZING!
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Hello from beautiful Madina! Happy to convey my salaams to our beloved Prophet peace be upon him.
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The people who witnessed the crash in Model Colony, Karachi, today, rushed in to try to help - regardless of coronavirus, regardless of the fact that they were fasting in the heat.
This is Pakistan. Tragedy and heroism and sacrifice and corruption on display, all the time.
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You can have your pilot back if you can show us the 300 terrorists you killed yesterday
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i've just seen a photo of Zainab's body lying in a garbage heap. I won't share it out of respect to her and her family.
But for once, I'm lost for words.
#JusticeForZainab
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In the UAE, people are not called "disabled" or "handicapped" or "physically challenged". They are known as "people of determination." Words matter. Language matters. Dignity for all starts there.
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So the Sindh government banned Airlift and Swvl, private-run transport companies, on the basis of missing "vehicle fitness certificates." Meanwhile, this is the kind of bus that runs on the roads of Karachi.
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You raised your voice and it worked, Clifton Beach is looking ristine today. Thanks to
@iamShaniera
and
@wasimakramlive
for taking ownership and responsibility of our beautiful spaces.
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Karachi needs a Parsi (Zoroastrian) Heritage Museum. Parsis have been an invaluable community in this city and I for one would love to have a museum dedicated to their history, prominent citizens, and their culture in Karachi.
RT if you agree.
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Why do Pakistanis spend their whole lives trying to emigrate from Pakistan and then they spend their whole lives recreating Pakistan wherever they immigrate to?
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If you think what Russia's doing to Ukraine is bad, you should have seen what they did to Syria
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I was a Muslim before anything else. I'd rather disappoint you than disappoint Allah.
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Dr. Ruth Pfau's grave in Karachi. So cool that it has a QR code you can scan to learn more about her extraordinary life.
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Judith Butler and Afghan women
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I first learned Pakistan's national anthem on the flute when we played it every year at high school graduation. Here is a solo rendition. Pakistan Zindabad!
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When Biden dropped that "inshallah" during the debate I don't think he realized the power he was calling upon.
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Afghan woman: Save me from the Taliban
Judith Butler: We'll redefine womanhood, you'll be fine
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He's standing in civilian clothes, walking free, not chained, not handcuffed. This is how you do peace. What an image.
Incredible scene of India's
#Abhinandan
walking to the Wagah border, accompanied by Pakistani soldiers. This is history in the making. Feeling almost emotional right now.
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Dear Pakistani men,
If the sight of a woman's hair or skin drives you into a frenzy and you have no control over yourself but to touch, molest, assault and rape....
... maybe you should stay at home.
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Those earrings could feed half the country
Look what I found :)
From the day of being arrested, at AbuDhabi airport. Smiling bravely in the face of danger shows she is calm and composed, not rattled. She’s a lioness born to and raised by a lion & a lioness. A fearless leader of the people.
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@cjwerleman
the excuse the Talibastards gave was that the women in university weren't observing proper hijab and were mixing with the men. So this is a game that girls and women in Afghanistan can never, ever win because the goalposts are always defined by serial misogynists.
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Hopefully one day people will see that Sindhis aren't just cruel feudals and pathetic peasants.
We are doctors, scientists, writers, intellectuals, farmers, entrepreneurs, engineers, artists. We are warm, tolerant, funny, loving and accepting. We are proud Pakistanis.
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In fact I wish every single girl and woman could be evacuated from Afghanistan and the Taliban and supporters can enjoy their male-only country.
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@monicabyrne13
@zinziclemmons
Do you think he was trying to pre-empt this from coming out with the essay he wrote in the New Yorker about being raped as a child? Like Kevin Spacey's "I'm gay" diversion?
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Don't talk to me about Kashmir
Don't talk to me about Afghanistan
Don't talk to me about the West
Fix this fucking country.
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i'm a TERF now. Yay me?
@BinaShah
@JhuttiJay
Of course you aren't, but you can't write transphobic things--using the discourse of TERFs based ironically in 'the West' to somehow argue that trans-rights is a Western imposition--and not expect to be called out for it.
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As Pakistani citizens, Sindhis have the constitutional right to live anywhere in the country. Especially in their own capital.
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It's beautiful.
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Imran Khan's explanation of pardah is why thousands of Pakistani men idolize Halima Hatun on Ertugul but harass the actress who plays her for wearing a bikini.
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Pakistan: the country full of male experts on women's clothing
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Very very brave woman, journalist
@RanaAyyub
speaking about anti-Muslim violence in India on
@democracynow
with Amy Goodman and
@nermeendn
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Stop encouraging your children to call every stranger "uncle" or "aunty". It engenders a false sense of familiarity with strangers. Young kids can't tell the difference.
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This is our Sindh. This is our Islam. This is our Pakistan.
Muslim community of Ghotki & Pakistan at large demonstrated exemplary resilience in the aftermath of Ghotki incident when they spend whole night in Hindu temple & became vanguards to protect Hindus. We're also grateful to you.
#Pakistan4All
@KlasraRauf
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I would love to see a Pakistani television show about a lady detective. A girl super athlete. An older woman who is Pakistan's first woman Supreme Court judge. Anything but the usual formula of evil bahu or sad oppressed victim.
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Women on Pakistani currency notes as imagined by the late Asim Butt. Wonder if we'll ever see this become reality?
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@Baddiel
There was plenty of land conquest in WW2. The Nazis masterminded a very deliberate, methodical genocide. The British engineered one no less devastating or consequential to history. Perhaps because it was widespread starvation it was less discriminate than callups and selections.
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Sharia law prioritises a woman's life over a fetus. Congratulations, America, you're about to let Sharia be more progressive on abortion than your own legal system.
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So why aren't they protesting outside
@zacgoldsmith
's house instead of harassing a single mother and her children?
You are right but there are ladies in the family of
@NawazSharifMNS
who have nothing to do with politics but they face abuses everyday, at least you should condemn harassment of women. Secondly your brother
@ZacGoldsmith
is interfering in Pakistani politics he should stay away.
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Waiting for Kangana Ranaut to ride in on a horse and conquer Pakistan
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The only thing standing between Pakistani women and their empowerment is the male ego
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Malala doesn't want to get married
People are upset
Malala gets married
People are upset
Maybe it's you, not Malala.
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The courts will always uphold an underage girl's free will when it involves the sexual satisfaction of an adult man.
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Australians offer to accompany Muslim Australians in public places if they fear racist backlash, using
#illridewithyou
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Pakistani men, how many of you have sat down with your sons and explained sexual harassment to them? Now many of you were explained by your fathers about how to treat women in public, the workplace, school, etc?
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Hi Sea New York. This is not a "brick multi", it's Sindhi ajrak from the land of Sindh, Pakistan. We're not very happy that you've used this cloth to make a top without acknowledging the origin of the cloth, or where you sourced it from.
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"Terrorism is one of the few areas where white people do most of the work and get none of the credit"
"A non-Muslim terrorist has to kill on average 7 people more than a Muslim terrorist to get equal coverage as a Muslim terrorist" - from my interview with
@JoyAnnReid
on
@msnbc
today.
Full intv, on
#Christchurch
, media Islamophobia, Palestine, guns, here:
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I say this every time I return from southeast Asia: I don't understand why we Pakistanis want to model ourselves after the West or even the Gulf Arab countries. We could do a lot better learning from regions like Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and more aspirational, Singapore.
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This brave Sindh Police officer is Rafiq Soomro of Umerkot. He and his fellow policemen stopped the terrorists attacking the Karachi Stock Exchange today.
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Well India has done the impossible and finally managed to unite Pakistan in laughing at them.
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On Pakistan Defence Day, September 6, a big salute to all the brave women serving in our armed forces! You make us very proud!
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@Lexialex
@maysoonzayid
@DineshDSouza
At least Trump picks grown women to bully. I can't believe D'Souza has achieved the impossible: making Trump look better by comparison.
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Clean-shaved white men need to do more about extremism in their communities
Clean-shaven white man arrested by police as at least 10 people are injured
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None of these women are overweight. They are healthy, fit, and they look fantastic. More importantly, you should be offloading pilots who get drunk before flying your planes.
PIA mulls offloading overweight cabin crew from international flights
@Official_PIA
#Pakistan
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I find it slightly odd that every single politician Pakistan has ever known suddenly becomes deathly ill the minute they land up in jail.
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@TheRaDR
@alexanderchee
Sharia allows for abortions, some schools allow it up to 120 days in certain circumstances. So it's not just Islamophobic and inaccurate, it's a bad comparison.
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Disappointed at the foreign press's negative portrayal of Imran Khan as new Prime Minister elect. Where's the balance?
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Excited to share the cover of my next book, Before She Sleeps, a dystopian novel about women in South Asia and the Middle East.
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Pakistan's Council For Islamic Ideology announces that wearing niqab protects against coronavirus. Pakistani gentlemen, do what you have to do to stay safe.
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Anyone who places such high self-worth on what boils down to a lack of melanin is a complete fucking loser.
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Every man who thinks this is okay, please get your 18 year old son married to a 49 year old woman, thank you.
Aamir Liaquat, 49, just got married to an 18 year old child....
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I just really need to know how Judith Butler's definition of women applies to Afghan women who are being beaten on the streets by the Taliban. Have you ever considered that your academics really don't fit the lives of women in the global South?
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Hijab can only be a choice, it can never be forced on a woman. I stand in solidarity with my Iranian sisters who are risking their lives to be free of a theocratic regime that would rather kill a woman than see her with her head uncovered.
#iran
#hijab
#womenandgirls
#mahsaamini
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No one will buy a dirty straw that's been inside a cup and already used up; why would you marry a guy if he has lost his virginity? This is what Islam preaches us, my brothers, please keep your virginity intact.
cc:
@anjanmundaa
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People responding to
@MehwishHayat
's national award the exact same way they reacted to
@Malala
winning the Nobel Peace Prize. What do an actor and an education activist have in common that they would receive such censure from their countrymen?
They're both women.
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If you're American, your tax dollars are paying for what's happening in Gaza right now.
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Mera Jism Meri Marzi = My Body, My CONSENT
- I don't want to be raped
- I don't want to be forced into marriage
- I don't want to be forced into pregnancy
- I don't want to be forced into abortion
- I don't want to be forced into sexual trafficking/prostitution
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I'm not standing up for corrupt, unprincipled, riding-on-their-fathers'-coattails dynastic princess daughters just because they're women. If that's what you think feminism is, think again.
Jealous much? Even as a self proclaimed feminist, you can’t admire her bravery in standing up and enabling her father to stand up to the status quo and choose to draw comparison with another woman, putting two women down at once. Wah 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#MaryamNawaz
#APC2020
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People who commit crime make the country look bad.
People who report on, discuss, condemn, and protest the crime make the country look conscious, responsible, and empathetic to the suffering of others.
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Somebody pinch me
Female-centered
#Dystopia
from
#Pakistan
: Before She Sleeps, Bina Shah
@harpercollins
Fascinating new angle on "emotional work"!
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No, Mohsin Abbas Haider should not be cancelled. He should be arrested and jailed.
Bravo to Fatema Sohail for having the courage to speak out against domestic violence. You have given 1000s of Pakistani women courage to do the same.
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One day when people learn the difference between "loose" and "lose" and "looser" and "loser" I will be a happy woman.
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First Pakistani woman of African heritage to become a parliamentarian. Lovely.
Pakistani of African heritage, Tanzeela Qambrani takes oath in Sindh Assembly. With African birth and expat myself, her dress makes me so hopeful that Pakistan will be plural and inclusive of hybrid identities. Congratulations
#PPP
. Picture via
@Maria_Memon
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She revolutionized leprosy treatment in Pakistan. Today she went home to her Maker. We'll miss you, Dr. Ruth Pfau. Shukriya and danke schon.
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