Faiqa Mahmood

Faiqa Mahmood is an editor for South Asian Voices where she manages the platform’s Urdu channel. She was formerly a Visiting Fellow at The Stimson Center's South Asia program and is also a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). Ms. Mahmood has conducted research for think tanks in the United States, Egypt, and Lebanon. Her writings have appeared in the Yale Journal of International Affairs, Georgetown Security Studies Review, Harvard Kennedy School's Journal of Middle Eastern Politics and Policy, Foreign Policy Magazine's South Asia Channel, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, among others.

Ms. Mahmood graduated from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy with a focus on International Security Studies and Southwest Asia and the Islamic Civilization.