Festival Guests 2025
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Fatima Zarah Umar is a foremost women’s rights advocate, lawyer, a writer, a politician, arbitrator and ribena enthusiast. She was the erstwhile host of Adikon Zamani, a BBC program that radically challenged long held harmful beliefs and practices.

She currently works at the National Assembly as a Special Assistant on Gender to the President of the Senate.

She’s also an avid book reader and loves to travel.