Musfira Khurshid is a history researcher and journalist, who has written for The Express Tribune, Lakeer, and Narivaad, focusing on interlacing connections often lost in the dominant discourse. She is an incoming PhD student in History, working on everyday policing and legal history of colonial Punjab.
Jul 25, 2026
This year’s Women’s Prize winner fills an important gap in contemporary histories of Afghanistan, but leaves the reader hankering for a world capacious enough to hold Afghan voices telling their own stories