A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
By: Sanam Maher
3.65
Format: 250 pages, Kindle Edition
The murder of a Pakistani social media star exposes a culture divided between accelerating modernit…
Want to Read $ 10.99"As Shah deftly steers the conversation, Anwar bibi and Azeem’s explanation for why Waseem killed Qandeel comes out muddled, a version that has been told, retold and then untold and erased over the last few months."-Sanam Maher, A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
"At 11.25 a.m. on 16 July 2016, Adil Nizami, a twenty-five-year-old rookie reporter from Multan, broke the biggest story of his career. ‘Famous model Qandeel Baloch has been killed,’ he blurted out in a live call that interrupted 24 News’ regular morning bulletin."-Sanam Maher, A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
"Five days after the world found out that her name was Fouzia Azeem, Qandeel received a legal notice from Fayyaz Leghari, a lawyer in Gadai, a town 20 kilometres from Shah Sadar Din. He wanted her to stop using ‘Baloch’ as her surname or claim to be a Baloch woman. ‘You have no relation (sic) with any Baloch family or tribe,’ Leghari wrote."-Sanam Maher, A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
"In the distance, smoke plumes from brick kilns where men, women and children will spend their entire lives on their knees under the sun cooling, patting, stacking, packing red bricks that are sent across the country. They will never leave that burning land, always thousands of rupees short of freeing themselves from their debts to the kiln’s owner"-Sanam Maher, A Woman Like Her: The Story Behind the Honor Killing of a Social Media Star
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