Anam Zakaria - Bangalore Literature Festival (BLF)

Bio

Anam Zakaria is an author, development professional and educationist based in Pakistan. She has previously worked with the Citizens Archive of Pakistan (CAP), leading their Oral History Project and Exchange-for-Change Project in Lahore and Islamabad, collecting narratives of the first and second generations of Pakistanis and opening communication channels between schoolchildren in India and Pakistan. She currently leads the education sector for the Association for the Development of Pakistan. Anam is also a teacher of development studies, and a student of psychotherapy, with a special interest in trauma and healing in conflict zones. The Footprints of Partition is her first book.