Fifi Haroon

Fifi Haroon

Fifi Haroon is a journalist based in London and works with the BBC World Service as a broadcaster.

  • Coming home?

    London Mayor Sadiq Khan was asked a very strange question when he walked across the Wagah border from India into Pakistan. A BBC reporter inquired...

  • Coming home?

    London Mayor Sadiq Khan was asked a very strange question when he walked across the Wagah border from India into Pakistan. A BBC reporter inquired...

  • What’s wrong with Padmavati?

    Women have often embodied land and country both in terms of representation in Bollywood cinema and in the popular imagination in the Subcontinent....

  • What’s wrong with Padmavati?

    Women have often embodied land and country both in terms of representation in Bollywood cinema and in the popular imagination in the Subcontinent....

  • What’s wrong with Padmavati?

    Women have often embodied land and country both in terms of representation in Bollywood cinema and in the popular imagination in the Subcontinent....

  • We the people

    There are few causes closer to my heart than the furtherance of Pakistani cinema. Without doubt, the events of this week are an affirmation that...

  • Censoring the nation

    There is something wrong with the state of a nation when its most acclaimed filmmaker gets rapped on the knuckles by the censors for having the guts...

  • Censoring the nation

    Censoring the nation

    There is something wrong with the state of a nation when its most acclaimed filmmaker gets rapped on the knuckles by the censors for having the guts...

  • Dirty pictures

    Dirty pictures

    This week, something happened across the border that left me sick to the stomach. Something deep inside me that once resembled hopefulness –...

  • Islamophobia and ‘brownface’

    Culture Pop I am a British-Pakistani woman and a Muslim. Though technically ‘brown’, I am fairly light-skinned. I don’t wear the...

  • Power games

    Culture Pop It is perhaps a sign of the times that there are dirty old, powerful men in every office – be it square, round or oval –...

  • High drama

    Culture Pop Soaps across the world survive on the echo effect of familiar stereotypes. This is not a phenomenon that is simply native to Pakistan....

  • Of goddesses and men

    Culture Pop S­he is three. A tiny little thing who for the next 10 years or so, until she reaches puberty, will literally be carried around...

  • The white dress

    Culture Pop This week, a famous Pakistan man congratulated another famous Pakistani man in full view of the world on Twitter. He called him...

  • First daughters

    First daughters

    Culture Pop Thousands of miles apart, two daughters are trying to navigate their developing paternal legacies in the spotlight. Both have spoken...

  • Of films and feminism

    Culture Pop It seems that purgatory is finally over and Pakistani cinema has won over its audience’s hearts and wallets once again. After a...

  • Culture Pop: The price of fame

    This week marks the 20th death anniversary of Diana, Princess of Wales’ unfortunate end in a lonely tunnel in Paris. The moment was marked by...

  • Culture Pop: Racism?

    Last week, a controversial article on sexual grooming was published in a UK tabloid with a headline screaming for attention: ‘British...

  • Culture Pop: Songs of freedom

    Tomorrow Pakistan will be 70 years young. I love my country deeply, but let’s be honest: despite its scenic beauty, the Pakistani nation has...

  • Culture pop: Message in a mobile

    At some time or the other in our careers many of us who are strong, confident women have come across a degree of gender-based intimidation or sexual...