OMAR WARAICH
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Omar Waraich is a writer, journalist and human rights campaigner. He is currently Deputy Regional Director for South Asia at Amnesty International. From 2007-16, he covered Pakistan and other parts of South Asia for TIME Magazine and The Independent. He has written on politics, the rise in terrorist attacks, Islamist insurgencies, military offensives, Pakistan-U.S. relations, the blasphemy laws, religious minorities, culture, and press freedom. He covered many other events in Pakistan, including the lawyers' movement, the 2007 state of emergency, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the 2008 & 2013 elections, the 2010 floods, and the death of Osama bin Laden. Omar has reported from South Asia, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. He has also written for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Slate, Sports Illustrated, The Caravan, Al-Jazeera America, Roads & Kingdoms, The Guardian, The New Statesman and The Economist Intelligence Unit. He has regularly appeared as a commentator on CNN, NPR, Sky News, BBC World News, BBC World Service, NBC, Bloomberg, and Al-Jazeera English. In 2013, Omar was a reporting fellow for religion with The International Reporting Project at SAIS-Johns Hopkins. In 2015, he won the SAJA award for "Outstanding editorial commentary on South Asia". Omar has a Master's in International Relations from the University of London and is pursuing a Master's in International Human Rights Law at the University of Oxford, where he is a Commonwealth Scholar. Twitter: @OmarWaraich E-mail: omar@omarwaraich.com Omar is represented by The Wylie Agency |
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