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Out now from Jackabin magazine. My name is Daniel

Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Fatimabuto is the author of a wonderful new novel called The Runaways, which is about

post-colonial Pakistan and England and how three very different characters end up traveling to Iraq to join a jihad for a fantasized caliphate for reasons that have nothing at all to do with religious piety.

Bhutto also writes about global pop culture and politics and she has been a close

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