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3:12 PM 02/08/2013

Fatima Bhutto '04 delivers opening remarks at the Sydney Writers' Festival

June 08, 2011
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writing
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Watch Pakistani writer Fatima Bhutto's '04 opening remarks at Australia's premier literary festival, the Sydney Writers' Festival. 

About this video: Pakistan is a country plagued by natural disasters, endemic political corruption, religious fundamentalism and is claimed by many to be the central headquarters of Islamist terrorism. And it’s a nuclear power. Fatima Bhutto, scion of the Pakistani political family, addresses the current state of her country in her Opening Address at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2011. Fatima Bhutto is an Afghan-born Pakistani poet and writer. She is the granddaughter of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and niece of Benazir Bhutto (both assassinated). She is active in Pakistan's socio-political arena but has no desire to run for political office. She currently writes columns for ‘The Daily Beast’, ‘New Statesman’ and other publications.

Read about Bhutto's new book, Songs of Blood and Sword:  A Daughter’s Memoir, in the Financial Times, TVNZ and ABC's Lateline.

 

 

 

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