Huma Yusuf is an award-winning columnist and investigative journalist. She writes a weekly column in the leading Pakistani English-language daily, Dawn, on topics related to security, terrorism, foreign relations, and human rights. Her work recently garnered the Best Column Award from the All Pakistan Newspapers Society.
She has served as the Features Editor of Dawn.com (2008-2010) and held the same post at the monthly news analysis magazine, Herald (2004-2006). She also contributes articles on a freelance basis to papers in the US and India, including The Christian Science Monitor, The Boston Globe, and Indian Express. Earlier, Huma was the Karachi-based staff writer for The Friday Times and a columnist for The News.
Huma specializes in human rights reporting and has addressed subjects such as low-income housing, ‘honour’ killings, gang warfare, ethnic conflict, and the state’s ineffective prosecution of rape cases. Her writing garnered the UNESCO/Pakistan Press Foundation ‘Gender in Journalism′ Award (2005) and the European Commission’s Prix Natali Lorenzo for Human Rights and Democracy Journalism (2006). Her recent work has focused on militancy and the resulting IDP crisis in Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and tribal areas.
A graduate of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program (MSc), Huma is interested in the social and political impact of media trends. She has written extensively about new media, violence, and democracy in Pakistan and is currently researching the role of community radio stations in Pakistan’s northern and tribal areas.
Previously, Huma graduated from Harvard University in 2002 with a degree in English and American Literatures and Languages.
This website is an archive of Huma’s published work, both academic and journalistic.
