Raza Ahmad Rumi
President, The Karakoram Initiative
Raza Ahmad Rumi is a Pakistani writer and a public policy specialist currently based in Ithaca, USA. He is the Director, Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College and has been teaching in Journalism department since 2015. He is also visiting faculty at Cornell Institute for Public Affairs and teaches courses in international development and public policy. Earlier, Raza was a global faculty fellow at the Gallatin School, New York University (Spring 2016).
Raza is a policy analyst, journalist and an author. He is Director, Park Center for Independent Media and teaches in the journalism department at Ithaca College. He is also a member faculty at Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell University. During 2015-2017, Raza was a scholar in residence at IC and taught courses in journalism and writing departments as well as at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. Raza has been a fellow at the New America Foundation, United States Institute of Peace and the National Endowment for Democracy. He is also a member of think tank at Laboratory for Global Performance and Politics, Georgetown University.
Presently, he is on the editorial board of The Friday Times and is the founding editor of NayaDaur Media. He is the co-editor of Ideas and Futures and founding editor of The Edge magazine. Earlier, he was the editor of Daily Times, Pakistan and a TV broadcaster in Pakistan before he moved to the United States in 2014.
Raza is the author of Delhi by Heart: Impressions of a Pakistani Traveller, The Fractious Path: Pakistan’s Democratic Transition and Identity and Faith and Conflict. His most recent book Being Pakistani: Society Culture and the Arts was published in June 2018 by Harper Collins, India. He co-edited a volume of essays entitled Rethinking Pakistan that was published by Anthem Press in September 2020.
The foregoing week has witnessed events that were atypical and volatile, even by Pakistani standards. The all-powerful military, whose near uncontested hegemony over Pakistani society has conferred upon it ‘holy cow’ status, has been rendered assailable in the public imagination.
While Pakistan has passed through many a crisis, the current imbroglio – the standoff between the parliament and the judiciary, between the executive and the
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