Nadeem F. Paracha

Nadeem Farooq Paracha (Urdu: ندیم فاروق پراچہ‎) is a Pakistani journalist,[1][2][3] author, cultural critic, satirist[4] and historian.[5][6][7] He is a columnist for Pakistan's largest English language daily Dawn newspaper.[8][9][10] He was also a part of Atish Raj, an industrial and avant-garde rock band.

Nadeem Farooq Paracha
Born
Nadeem Farooq Paracha

6 February 1967
Karachi
Other namesNadeem F. Paracha
OccupationJournalist
Years active1987– present

He is the author of five books on the social and political history of Pakistan: The Pakistan Anti-Hero, End of the Past, Points of Entry and Muslim Modernism: A Case For Naya Pakistan.[11] His fifth book, Soul Rivals, a political and social history of Sufism in Pakistan, was published in February 2020.[12]

Paracha is also a Research Scholar and Reagan-Fascell Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC.[13] and a consultant for Adcom Leo Burnett Worldwide.

Paracha was a radical Marxist student leader in the 1980s. He was often considered to be a socialist when he joined journalism in the 1990s. However, over the last decade he has often described himself as a Muslim modernist, a progressive Pakistani nationalist, and a democrat. He is also a harsh critic of postmodernism and is staunchly against the mixing of religion with politics.[14]

Books
  • End of the past : An immediate eyewitness history of a troubled nation, Lahore : Vanguard Books, 2016, 234 p.
  • The Pakistan Anti-Hero : History of Pakistani nationalism through the lives of iconoclasts, Lahore : Vanguard Books, 2017, 396 p.
  • Points of Entry : Encounters at the origin-sites of Pakistan, Chennai : Tranquebar, 2018, 160 p.
  • Muslim modernism : A case for Naya Pakistan, Lahore : Vanguard Books, 2019, 162 p.
  • Soul Rivals : State, Militant and Pop Sufism in Pakistan, Chennai : Tranquebar, 2020, 128 p.

References
  1. Ali, Sobia (n.d.). "An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha". HuffPost. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  2. "Nadeem F Paracha". awamiweb.
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  4. "Pakistani satire of Malala conspiracy theories taken as real conspiracy theory". The Washington Post.
  5. "An Interview With Nadeem F. Paracha". Dawn.
  6. "Profile of Nadeem F. Paracha". awaztoday.
  7. "Nadeem F. Paracha". pakistantimes.
  8. "Pakistan: The lesser-known histories of an ancient land".
  9. "SMOKERS' CORNER".
  10. "Profile of Nadeem F. Paracha". Pakistannewshd.com.
  11. "Muslim Modernism Events".
  12. "Soul Rivals Events".
  13. "NED Events".
  14. "Reading Muslim Modernism in Pakistan".



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