Zahra Sabri is a Karachi-based lecturer in Indo-Islamic History and Literatures. She received her MA degree from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. Her academic publications focus on the writings of late Mughal poets such as Mir Taqi Mir. She is a literary translator, and has translated folk and classical poetry from almost a dozen Pakistani languages for eleven seasons of the popular music programme Coke Studio, Pakistan. She has also worked as a journalist for the Herald magazine (Dawn), winning the Zubeida Mustafa Award for Journalistic Excellence. She has contributed articles to Pakistan’s national press on diverse political, literary, and educational issues over the years. She is the curator of Koozah -- an anthology of Urdu short stories by new and little-known Pakistani writers.