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Ather Zia
Author, Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women′s Activism in Kashmir (2019)
My Mother’s Scribe gut-punched me. Rafiq captures his mother’s worldly vanities, endearing her to the reader. The apple does not fall far from the tree—this is a Kashmiri apple at that.