Tag: Muhammad Hamid Zaman

In the last few months, I have been working with researchers in Karachi to understand the link between healthcare access, livelihood and living conditions among poorer parts of the city, … Read More

During my PhD, I worked on computer simulations of biological systems and processes. The idea was to simulate how a system would develop, evolve or respond to changes in the … Read More

The argument at the core of the recent anti-defamation legislation in Punjab, and the continued ban on X goes something like this: speech that is viewed as defamatory by some … Read More

A small story in probably the most widely read Urdu newspaper caught my attention late last week. It was about antibiotic resistance, and its impact on Pakistan. I have been … Read More

The campus protests and encampments at dozens of US universities are all over the news. I have been a faculty member since 2006 and have never seen anything quite like … Read More

In the recently published brilliant biography of the 20th century philosopher, psychiatrist and anti-colonial activist Franz Fanon titled The Rebel’s Clinic, author Adam Shatz recounts Fanon’s early experience treating patients … Read More

In February 2020, just a few weeks before the global travel was to come to a standstill, I was in Jerusalem. On a cold, rainy evening, I met up with … Read More

When the screens — small ones in the palm of the hands of the voters, and larger ones in various election offices — went dark, a sense of déjà vu … Read More

Unlike many other places I have been to, my taxi driver in Belgrade knew where Pakistan was. So did the bookseller and the coffee shop owner. It is not because … Read More

Several years ago, I met a young Syrian boy at our mosque who had lost both of his arms in one of the bombing campaigns by the Assad government in … Read More