Saba Karim Khan

Saba Karim Khan is an author, award-winning filmmaker and educator, who read Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and works at NYU Abu Dhabi. Khan’s debut novel, Skyfall, was published by Bloomsbury and she is a contributor to the anthology, Ways of Being: Creative Non-fiction by Pakistani Women. Her latest book, Home #itscomplicated, is an anthology exploring people’s messy yet meaningful relationship with ‘home’, which in this case is Pakistan. She is a columnist for Khaleej Times and her writing, interviews and talks have appeared in The Guardian, BBC, The Independent, the Wimbledon Book Fest, Emirates Literature Festival, Karachi Literature Festival, Lahore Literary Festival, NYUAD Institute, Gulf News, The National, Wasafiri, Huff Post, Verso, LUMS, Think Progress, DAWN, The Friday Times and Express Tribune. Khan’s doc-film, Concrete Dreams: Some Roads Lead Home, produced by the Doha Film Institute (DFI), secured official selections and won awards at film festivals in NYC, Paris, Berlin, Toronto, USA, Sweden and India. Her latest film, W.R.A.P. explores the lives of three underground hip-hop artists in Karachi and has won awards and official selections in Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom and India so far. Before joining the Academy, Khan worked as Country Marketing and Corporate Affairs Head at Citigroup. Born in Karachi, she now lives in Abu Dhabi with her husband and two daughters. She can be reached at www.sabakarimkhan.com.