Fatima Bhutto
Fatima Bhutto was born in Kabul in 1982. Her father was Murtaza Bhutto, son of Pakistan's former President and Prime Minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Her father was killed by police in 1996 in Karachi during the premiership of his sister, Benazir Bhutto.
Fatima graduated from Columbia University in 2004, majoring in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2005 with a Masters in South Asian Government and Politics.
She is the author of two books: Whispers of the Desert, a volume of poetry, was published in 1997 by Oxford University Press Pakistan. 8.50 a.m. 8 October 2005, a collection of first-hand accounts from survivors of the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan, was published by OUP in 2006.
Fatima writes a weekly column for Jang - Pakistan's largest Urdu newspaper and its English sister publication The News. She covered the Israeli Invasion and war with Lebanon from Lebanon in the summer of 2006 and also reported from Iran in January 2007 at the start of Iran-US tensions. She has written articles for the Los Angeles Times, Times of India, The Hindustan Times and Tehelka Magazine.
Most recently she has spoken at the Shanghai Literary festival and the Ubud and Galle literary festivals. She is active in various social causes and has been a part of four election campaigns in Pakistan, including the most recent. Fatima is now writing a book about Pakistan to be published by Jonathan Cape in 2010.
She lives with her mother Ghinwa Bhutto and her brother Zulfiqar Bhutto Jr. in the famous Bhutto family residence in Clifton, Karachi.
Titles
Songs of Blood and Sword - A Daughter's Memoir (Jonathan Cape, 2010)