Sahar Gul

Dr. Sahar Gul is a development practitioner, researcher, columnist, novelist, and public speaker. She is the Gender Advisor for Sindh for the United Nations International Trade Centre.

She has a Masters degree in Philosophy, another Master’s in Anthropology, a doctoral degree in Philosophy, and diplomas in Arabic and Persian. She wrote her doctoral thesis on the “Philosophy of Cosmopolitan Nationalism and Class Perspective: Understanding Sindh’s Ethno-Centric Dilemma.” 

She disseminates Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai's message and draws analogies between his work and the work of Iranian and sub-continental poets.

In the last 25 years, she has taught Philosophy and History of Ideas at Sindh University, Hamdard University Islamabad, SZABIST Hyderabad, and worked with several national/international research and development institutions (UN, Oxfam Gb, Concern Worldwide, ActionAid Pakistan, Plan International, World Vision, etc.). She was Director Benazir Bhutto Chair at Karachi University from 2015 to 2018.  She has also worked in conflict-affected areas of Pakistan during the military operation in 2008-2009 and conducted a perception survey in the post-extremism scenario 

Her research interests include gender justice, philosophy, and radicalization in South Asia (focus: Pakistan & Afghanistan), cosmopolitan nationalism, literature, and Eastern mysticism. She has hosted many talk shows on socio-political issues for television. Her recently published novel on Buddhism and love, “Ishq Tamam, Bireh Tamam”, was published in Sindhi in 2018. 

Her upcoming books include a translation of her novel into Urdu, a book of interviews of the philosopher Jawaid Bhutto, Essays on socio-political issues, a translation of Tagore’s Nationalism, a translation of Historical Materialism, an adventurous travelogue/stories of children, and a novel/dialogue on Greek Philosophy.