Zahra Haider is a writer from Islamabad, Pakistan, currently based in Montréal. She studied Anthropology and Women’s Studies at York University in Toronto. Her work explores state fractures, otherness, nationalism, and identity, particularly in relation to Pakistan and its diaspora. She has been featured on BBC, CNN, CBC, DW, and VICE, sparking conversations around class, gender, sexuality, and women’s trauma in Pakistan. Haider has facilitated writing workshops at the Centre for Gender Advocacy at Concordia University and in Montréal’s Parc-Ex community. She is a member of Rang Collective and the Quebec Writers’ Federation, and runs the Substack ZERO POINT and podcast Armpit Intellectuals.