Madiha R. Tahir is multimedia and print freelance journalist based in Karachi, Pakistan. Her work has appeared in Foreign Affairs, The National, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Herald (Pakistan), The Friday Times, as well as on Democracy Now!, PRI’s The World, Global Post and other outlets. Tahir is fluent in Urdu and Hindi and has a basic knowledge of Arabic. She holds a masters degree in Near Eastern Studies from NYU and an M.S. from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.
Tahir has traveled extensively throughout Pakistan from Balochistan to Swat as well as to rural, flood-affected areas. She is interested in nation-making, the politics of resistance and democracy movements, and the relationship between the field of journalism and its objects of study.
Tahir is co-editor of a forthcoming volume, Dispatches from Pakistan with historian Vijay Prashad and editor Qalandar Bux Memon.