To shed light on the causes and likely outcomes of the recent rise in sectarian antagonism in Pakistan, SWANA collective members speak with Dr. Sadia Abbas, Professor of English and of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, Newark. She is the author of At Freedom’s Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament (Fordham University Press, 2014), which won the modern Language Association’s First Book Prize. Her novel, The Empty Room, was published in 2018 by Zubaan Books, a breakaway of the pioneering Indian feminist press, Kali for Women. Her commentaries on contemporary Pakistan and on Europe’s treatment of refugees and migrants can be found in Dawn, Counterpunch, Tank Magazine, and other publications.
