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Rafia Zakaria

Rafia Zakaria is a journalist and the author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan.

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Being Muslim at an American airport

When I fly I smile a lot, type only in English, and pretend I'm not reading a book about the rise of ISIS.

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