Afiya Shehrbano Zia

Afiya Shehrbano Zia is a feminist researcher and activist based in Karachi, Pakistan. She is the author of,‘ Sex Crime in the Islamic Context’ and several published articles on women, religion and secularism

Donor-driven Islam ?

Collaboration between western academia and Pakistani women at home and in the diaspora has established a body of donor-funded research with an exclusive focus on Islam. Will development policies based on such research lead to any kind of liberation?

By Afiya Shehrbano Zia

/ 21 Jan 2011