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Fatima Bhutto
History & Commentary
Pakistani writer and columnist born in 1982, granddaughter of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, educated at Barnard and SOAS, known for non-fiction and journalism.
Biography
Fatima Bhutto was born 29 May 1982 in Kabul and raised in Syria and Karachi. She is the daughter of politician Murtaza Bhutto and the granddaughter of former prime minister and president Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto earned a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in New York City and a master's degree from SOAS, University of London.
She works as a Pakistani writer and columnist and has published non-fiction including Songs of Blood and Sword (2010), which concerns her family. Bhutto has been publicly critical of her aunt, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and Benazir's husband Asif Ali Zardari, whom she accused of involvement in her father's murder. Her journalism has appeared in publications such as The News and The Guardian, and she is the author of New Kings of the World (2019).
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Books by Fatima Bhutto
New Kings of the World
New Kings of the World (2019) examines a new global pop culture emerging from beyond the Western world — from India's Bollywood and Turkey's Magnificent Century to South Korean K‑Pop — profiling figures such as Shah Rukh Khan and tracing phenomena like "Gangnam Style" reaching one billion YouTube views.