Zahra Haider
Writer + Researcher
Zahra Haider is a writer, researcher, and organizer from Islamabad, Pakistan, based in Montréal, whose work traces the fault lines of identity, nationalism, class, and diaspora through a Marxist-feminist and neocolonial lens. Her work and commentary have appeared on BBC, CNN, CBC, DW, Dawn, VICE News, The Aleph Review, Montréal Serai, and others. She received a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant (2026) for her work-in-progress and debut novel, Parallel Lines, and serves as the Quebec Regional Project Lead for the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA), and the Digital Infrastructure Coordinator at SEIZE. She publishes the Substack ZERO POINT, the podcast Armpit Intellectuals, and is a member of the Quebec Writers' Federation.