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Fatima Bhutto

Fatima Bhutto is the author of books including The Runaways and New Kings of the World

July 2023

  • Illustration: Eleanor Shakespeare

    Why are people dying at sea? They are fleeing disasters that we once called ‘biblical’, and now call normal

    Fatima Bhutto
    Many of those who drowned near Greece last month were escaping environmental crises in Pakistan, says author Fatima Bhutto

March 2023

  • FILE PHOTO: Monsoon season in Nowshera<br>FILE PHOTO: A girl carries her sibling as she walks through stranded flood water, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Nowshera, Pakistan September 4, 2022. REUTERS/Fayaz Aziz/File Photo

    There’s no greater feminist cause than the climate fight – and saving each other

    Fatima Bhutto
    When my country, Pakistan, flooded last year, women faced particular suffering. That’s true around the world

February 2023

  • Release Of Bollywood Film Pathaan, Kolkata, India - 25 Jan 2023<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Sankhadeep Banerjee/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock (13736951j) Fans of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan revel as they celebrate the release of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Hindi-language film ''Pathaan'', ahead of its first day-second screening, outside a cinema hall in Kolkata on January 25, 2023. Release Of Bollywood Film Pathaan, Kolkata, India - 25 Jan 2023

    Bollywood is obsessed with Pakistan. We’d be flattered if it weren’t so nasty

    Fatima Bhutto
    Try as the industry might, Modi’s quasi-fascist politics cannot be set to jaunty music and helicopter stunts

December 2022

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    Superheroes, jazz, queer art: how Pakistan’s transgressive pop culture went global

  • baby carried aloft at camp in warah, sindh province, pakistran

    Snapshot of 2022
    A newborn held aloft in Pakistan sums up the sheer injustice of the climate crisis

    Fatima Bhutto

September 2022

  • Victims of flooding from monsoon rains carry belongings salvaged from their flooded home in the Dadu district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2022. The unprecedented deluge, which began in mid-June, has triggered landslides and collapsed houses, killing over 1,350 people and leaving over 600,000 homeless in Pakistan. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

    The west is ignoring Pakistan’s super-floods. Heed this warning: tomorrow it will be you

    Fatima Bhutto
    Those who don’t die from the floods risk death by starvation – yet you’ve probably heard little about the devastation

June 2022

  • Ali Smith, Colm Tóibín, Bernardine Evaristo, Pankaj Mishra, Hilary Mantel and Ian Rankin

    Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites

    Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir

December 2021

  • PAKISTAN-ECONOMY-LABOUR<br>Labourers sleep on a road divider along a street in the port city of Karachi on June 1, 2021. (Photo by Rizwan TABASSUM / AFP) (Photo by RIZWAN TABASSUM/AFP via Getty Images)

    The rage of men with no future led to the lynching of Priyantha Kumara

    Fatima Bhutto
    From fragile leaders to invisible workers, anger is shimmering throughout the serpentine politics of Pakistan and India, says Pakistani author Fatima Bhutto

August 2021

  • TALIBAN PRESS CONFERENCE, Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan - 17 Aug 2021<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES/REX/Shutterstock (12312881b) Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman for nearly 2 decades who worked in the shadows, makes his first-ever public appearance to address concerns about the Taliban’ reputation with women’s education, appearance and rights, television music and executions, during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. (MARCUS YAM / LOS ANGELES TIMES) TALIBAN PRESS CONFERENCE, Kabul, Kabul Province, Afghanistan - 17 Aug 2021

    ‘Defeat was inevitable’: our panel weighs in on the Afghanistan catastrophe

    Fatima Bhutto , Stephen Wertheim, Moira Donegan, Haroun Dada, Shadi Hamid and David Vine
    Our panel weighs in on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and its aftermath

March 2021

  • A medical worker receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan, on March 9, 2021.

    The world's richest countries are hoarding vaccines. This is morally indefensible

    Fatima Bhutto
    Why does South Africa have to pay twice as much for vaccines as European countries do? Why has the entire continent of Africa - home to 1.3 billion people – been allocated just 300 million doses?

January 2021

  • Arif Hassan as Rahat in Zindagi Tamasha.

    How Pakistan banned a new drama – and put it up for an Oscar

    Sarmad Khoosat was the darling of Pakistan’s entertainment industry until his new film, the haunting and elegiac Zindagi Tamasha, fell foul of fundamentalists – who called for him to be beheaded

July 2020

  • TOPSHOT-US-LIFESTYLE-PRESIDENTS PARK<br>TOPSHOT - A bust of Andrew Jackson can be seen as people get an overview from a mountain of mulch while they tour the decaying remains of salvaged busts of former US Presidents August 25, 2019, in Williamsburg, Virginia. - Howard Hankins rescued the giant busts of former US Presidents from the closed Presidents Park in Colonial Williamsburg when he was commissioned to destroy them. (Photo by Brendan Smialowski / AFP)BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images

    Book of the day
    Caste by Isabel Wilkerson review – a dark study of violence and power

    A renowned writer considers the social divisions in American society, many of them unacknowledged, using comparisons with India and Nazi Germany

June 2020

  • World Reacts To George Floyd Death<br>WALLINGTON, ENGLAND - JUNE 02: In this photo illustration, the photographer’s wife looks at David Beckham’s #blackouttuesday Instagram post, showing solidarity with the ongoing George Floyd protests in the USA, on June 02, 2020 in Wallington, England. The death of an African-American man, George Floyd, at the hands of police in Minneapolis has sparked violent protests across the USA. A video of the incident, taken by a bystander and posted on social media, showed Floyd’s neck being pinned to the ground by police officer, Derek Chauvin, as he repeatedly said “I cant breathe”. Chauvin was fired along with three other officers and has been charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter. (Photo by Mark Trowbridge/Getty Images)

    As responses to George Floyd's death go, #BlackOutTuesday was embarrassing

    Fatima Bhutto
    The black tiles posted online displaced other, more vital messages, a reminder that social media is not a force for change

May 2020

  • A Bedouin village in the Negev.

    Minor Detail by Adania Shibli review – horror in the desert

    The true story of how a Bedouin girl was raped and murdered by Israeli soldiers is at the heart of this sharply observed novel

September 2019

  • Guardian Design

    The long read
    How Turkish TV is taking over the world

    The long read: Shows such as Magnificent Century have come to rival US TV for international popularity, sweeping through the Middle East, Asia and Latin America. What explains their global success?

April 2019

  • 12th APRIL- LONDON: Fatima Bhutto. ( Photo by Graeme Robertson)

    Books that made me
    Fatima Bhutto: ‘David Foster Wallace on David Lynch is pretty funny’

    The novelist on admiring Maggie Nelson and Rachel Kushner, and being irritated by William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury

November 2018

  • Hillary Clinton and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at PEN America’s world voices festival

    When Chimamanda met Hillary: a tale of how liberals cosy up to power

    Fatima Bhutto
    How many times must famous writers not only fail to confront the violence inflicted by the west, but actually celebrate it?

September 2018

  • Michelle Yeoh, centre, in Crazy Rich Asians.

    Crazy Rich Asians is no racial triumph. It's a soulless salute to the 1%

    Fatima Bhutto
    With its plummy accents, couture gowns and clumsy merging of cultures, this ‘tale of empowerment’ is just Sex and the City in Singapore

August 2018

  • Jamil Dehlavi.

    Jamil Dehlavi: 'In Pakistan, there is always something in the offing'

    Over the decades, the film-maker has told transgressive tales of the country’s existential turmoil. Such commentary, however, has come at a price

July 2018

  • Imran Khan addresses supporters during in Lahore on 23 July.

    Imran Khan is only a player in the circus run by Pakistan’s military

    Fatima Bhutto
    It is the nation’s supreme tragedy that such a young, hopeful, promising people are offered this glut of shoddy candidates, writes Fatima Bhutto, the granddaughter of Pakistan’s first democratically elected head of state, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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