Taha Kehar

Taha Kehar is a journalist, literary critic, and novelist. He is a law graduate from SOAS, London, and has authored two novels, Typically Tanya (HarperCollins India, 2018) and Of Rift and Rivalry (Palimpsest Publishers, 2014). He co-edited The Stained-Glass Window: Stories of the Pandemic from Pakistan. Kehar was the head of The Express Tribune’s Peshawar city pages and its bi-monthly books page and was the assistant editor on the op-ed desk at The News. Kehar’s essays, reviews, and commentaries have been published in The News on Sunday, The Hindu, and South Asia magazine, and his short fiction has appeared in the Delhi-based quarterly The Equator Line, the biannual journal Pakistani Literature, and the OUP anthology I’ll Find My Way. Two of his short stories appeared in an anthology titled The Banyan and Her Roots, edited by the British writer Jad Adams. In 2016, he guest-edited an issue of The Equator Line, titled ‘Pakistan: After The Stereotypes’, that focused on new writing from Pakistan. He teaches undergraduate media courses in Karachi and has just completed a post-modern detective novel.