Afiya Shehrbano Zia (Urdu: عافیہ شہربانو ضیا) is a Pakistani feminist researcher, writer and activist based in Karachi.
[1] She is the author of "Faith and Feminism in Pakistan"(Sussex Academic Press, 2018)[2][3] and several published articles on women, secularism and religion.
[6][7] Zia got her master's degree in 1992,[8] in Women's Studies from the University of York, UK.
She is founding member of an academic group in Karachi and appears on different TV channels as commentator on socio-political topics.
[13] She is the author of many books and essays including "Sex Crime in the Islamic Context" (1994, ASR),[14] "Voicing Demands" (Zed Books, 2014) and "Contesting Feminisms: Gender and Islam in Asia” (SUNY Press, 2015).