Saad Zuberi
@saadmzuberi
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PhD @ManshipSchool. Identity, framing, & representation. Journalist & docu filmmaker. Former editorial lead BBC MA Afg & producer @OpenJirga among other things.
Currently the U.S.
Joined June 2011
RT @StudyUKBritish: Where could your UK education take you? This week our 2024 #StudyUKAlumniAwards Global Winners are back in the UK, meet….
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RT @ManshipSchool: Congratulations to LSU Manship School doctoral student @saadmzuberi on receiving the British Council's Global UK Alumni….
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RT @cityalumni: Saad Zuberi (International Journalism, 2013) through to British Council Study UK Alumni Awards Global Final !. Read more: h….
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RT @NidaKirmani: While the subaltern not only speaks but screams at their oppressors, those theorizing about them choose to remain silent.….
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I'm told I need to up my self-promo game until I can afford a full time PR agent. #ukalumniawards .@pkBritish @CityUniLondon @cityjournalism
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RT @NidaKirmani: Tired of obsessing about the election? Read this excellently-researched piece by @saadmzuberi on male bodybuilders in Paki….
aljazeera.com
Inside the little-known world of bodybuilding, vulnerable young men face steroid abuse and sexual exploitation.
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RT @laucesaretti: Fascinating work. The situation seems very similar to #Afg. I always wonder why body building was more popular than boxin….
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RT @AJEnglish: “If bodybuilders need to be scared of anything, it is the influence of manipulative coaches.". How Pakistani bodybuilders ar….
aljazeera.com
Inside the little-known world of bodybuilding, vulnerable young men face steroid abuse and sexual exploitation.
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A little more detail on a story I began working on two years ago -.
“If bodybuilders need to be scared of anything, it is the influence of manipulative coaches.". How Pakistani bodybuilders are vulnerable to drug abuse in their pursuit of fame | #AJLongReads ⤵️
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RT @hrw: Pakistan: Don’t Try Civilians in Military Courts
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The Pakistan government should immediately transfer civilians set to be tried in military courts to the civilian justice system
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379 Hostages. One True Story. Hijacked: Flight 73. It was a pleasure producing this with an incredible team of journalists and filmmakers at @blastfilms, digging through facts and archives dating back 35 years to tell a story that still has relevance today #skydocumentaries.
Watch HIJACKED: FLIGHT 73 tonight at 9.20pm on #SkyDocumentaries @skytv & @NOW . From BAFTA-winning director Ben Anthony, our feature documentary tells the story of Pan Am Flight 73’s hijacking in 1986, one of the most shocking terrorist acts in history. #SkyOriginal
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What are the makings of a diehard @ImranKhanPTI supporter? To find out, watch my film for @AJEnglish that follows a devotee/#PTIOfficial worker in the days leading up to the events of May 9 .#Pakistan #AJCloseUp.
Mohammed Farhan is a devoted Imran Khan supporter. Watch as we follow him joining thousands of protesters across Pakistan after the former PM’s arrest #AJCloseUp ⤵️
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Why are Pakistan's bodybuilders dying? I made a short film for @VICEWorldNews last year that takes you on a fun yet uncomfortably eye-opening ride down the dark crevasses of Pakistan’s bodybuilding subculture. Watch: #Pakistan #Bodybuilding #Documentary
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RT @VICEWorldNews: In Pakistan, bodybuilding is an obsession and, for many, a route out of abject poverty. But a shot at wealth and fame is….
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20 days ago I wrote an article for @AJEnglish. 18 days ago I got an email from a reader saying they wanted to support the boy featured in the piece. And today I received a picture of the boy in his new uniform, ready to head back to school. Humans, they’re not so bad after all!.
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Consumer prices rose 36.4% in April from a year earlier, the highest since 1964--Pakistan’s inflation hits a record on the back of a weaker currency and a rise in food and energy costs via @economics.
bloomberg.com
Pakistan took the crown for Asia’s fastest inflation from Sri Lanka as a weaker currency and rising food and energy costs drove price gains to a record in April.
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Read my latest on the institutional discrimination and psychological abuse that forces Pakistan's Christian minority to lead substandard lives defined by the shame and misfortune their socio-religious identity brings them👇. #Pakistan #HumanRights.
"We don’t have a choice when supervisors threaten, curse and disrespect us. Our only option is to give in.". The plight of Pakistani Christians who are forced to clean streets and sewers | #AJLongReads ⤵️
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Cant believe #homosexuality is trending in Pakistan thanks to #Joyland. Maybe its time to make films about corruption, rape, adultery, child abuse, eating up peoples inheritances, bribery, infanticide, honor killings --just some other things ALSO explicitly forbidden in Islam🙃.
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