Wajiha Hyder is a journalist and editor writing about culture, gender, and social change in Pakistan, focusing on how they shape one another. Her work examines how culture reflects identity and what it reveals about the present moment, across reported features, long-form interviews, criticism, and essays. It has appeared in The Missing Slate, Pakistan Today, and The News on Sunday, among others.
She began her career in finance before moving into journalism, and has since held editorial roles across publications. She oversees the art, culture, and books sections at The News on Sunday, where she commissions and curates essays, interviews, and criticism.
Alongside her journalism, she works as an independent country researcher (Pakistan), contributing to international research and evaluation assignments through qualitative research, including key informant interviews, stakeholder mapping and synthesis. Her work also includes communications management for a non-profit health foundation.
Her debut short fiction appeared in The Stained-Glass Window: Stories of the Pandemic from Pakistan (2020). She has served on juries for major writing prizes.
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