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© Basharat Peer
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Basharat Peer is a Kashmiri journalist and the author of the acclaimed memoir Curfewed Night: One Kashmiri Journalist’s Account of Life, Love, and War in his Homeland (Scribner, 2010). As an Open Society Fellow, Peer began research on a comprehensive history of India's 154 million Muslims—one of the largest religious minorities in the world. Peer is compiling the stories of individuals and places to illuminate the challenges posed by religious violence, prejudice, and systemic injustice to democracy and human rights in contemporary India.
Peer has worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs and served as a correspondent at Tehelka, an English-language investigative newsweekly. He has contributed to Granta, the New Statesman, the Nation, the Financial Times Magazine, the Guardian, and the Times of India, among other publications. He holds a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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