Arfa Khanum Sherwani (born 1 November 1980) is an Indian journalist and the senior editor of The Wire.
[4] In September 2024 she was selected by the Stanford University for the very prestigious John S Knight Journalism Fellowship, will be spending an academic year at the campus.
In 2020, a 42-second clip was cut from a speech Sherwani delivered at the Aligarh Muslim University over Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 and given a distorted interpretation to harass her.
While talking to the Committee to Protect Journalists, she stated that she has received death and rape threats on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
[5][6] Sherwani was a victim of online abuse through the Bulli Bai app, which listed several prominent Muslim women on a mock auction.