Zahra Haider is a multidisciplinary artist, born in Islamabad, Pakistan. She was raised between Islamabad, Lahore, and Dubai, and is currently based in Montréal. She is interested in themes of state fractures, otherness, liminality, nationalism, and identity, particularly in relation to Pakistan and its diaspora.

Her work has pioneered insightful conversations around class, gender, sexuality, and sexual violence in Pakistan and has been featured on major media platforms such as BBC, CNN, Foreign Policy, VICE, CBC and others.

She is a member of t he Rang Collective, a Montréal-based collective for the arts of South Asia, as well as a member of the Quebec Writers’ Federation.

Read her newsletter Zero Point or listen to the podcast she co-hosts, Armpit Intellectuals.