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Umber Khairi is a columnist, writer, and editor. She has worked as a journalist in Pakistan and the UK since the 1980s and was a producer and radio broadcaster at the BBC World Service in London for almost two decades. She is a co-founder of the independent, journalist-owned magazine Newsline, established under the leadership of the late Razia Bhatti in 1989. Khairi now runs the Razia Bhatti Memorial Lecture Series in partnership with the IBA’s Centre for Excellence in Journalism. Her weekly column, UK Calling, has featured in The News on Sunday since 1998, and she occasionally contributes to other publications, including Dawn, Naya Daur, and The Circuit. Her novel, ‘Akbar in Wonderland’, is set in 1990s Pakistan, in a post-martial law landscape. Umber Khairi is a graduate of Princeton University, where she studied Comparative Literature and Near Eastern Studies.
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