MLTs in the News: Basharat Peer's first book "Curfewed Night" released in the U.S.

MLT Basharat Peer's first book "Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist's Frontline Account of Life, Love, and War in His Homeland," was recently released in the U.S. by Simon & Schuster.

"Curfewed Night is a brave and unforgettable piece of literary reporting that reveals the personal stories behind one of the most brutal conflicts in modern times. Since 1989, when the separatist movement exploded, more than seventy thousand people have been killed in the battle between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. Born and raised in the war-torn region, Basharat Peer brings this little-known part of the world to life in haunting, vivid detail..." [Read More]

South Asian Journalist Association (SAJA) article

About Basharat Peer:

Basharat Peer is a Kashmiri journalist and author. Peer is a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New York and has worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs and is the author of the acclaimed memoir Curfewed Night (forthcoming in the U.S. from Scribner). He served as a correspondent at Tehelka, an English-language investigative newsweekly, and has contributed to the New Statesman, the Nation, the Financial Times Magazine, the Guardian, and the Times of India, among other publications. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. [Read More]

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