Editor with over 20 years of experience including The News on Sunday (founding editor), The News International (op-ed editor), Himal Southasian (contributing editor) and Aman ki Asha (editor); taught journalism and non-fiction writing classes at Harvard Summer School, Brown University and Princeton University. Edited material for non-profits, non-fiction writers and academics (listed below).
- Patricia Cooper, Founder-Convenor, The Women’s Regional Network; Denver, CO
- Nazila Fatih, author, speaker, communications expert ; Washington DC
- Mariam Chughtai, Country Director Pakistan, Harvard South Asia Institute at Harvard University; Lahore, Pakistan
Some published work:
Series Editor: Women in Conflict – Community Conversations, The Women’s Regional Network, 2016:
- Internally Displaced Women from North and South Waziristan, Pakistan
- Afghanistan’s Internally Displaced Women
- Homeless at Home: Internally Displaced Women in India’s North East
- Scoping Study South Asia Tribunal on Women’s Human Rights
Editor: Exploring Ahmadi Women’s Voices, The Women’s Regional Network, published in Constructing Pathways: Stimulating and Safeguarding Components of WPS, working papers for Women Peace Security Conference, U.S. Navy War College, April 2015
Editor: “Exploring Women’s Voices: Women in Conflict Zones: The Pakistan Study – Community Conversations in Balochistan and Swat”, The Women’s Regional Network, 2014
Manuscript editor for The Political Economy of a Punjabi Village in Pakistan by Zekiye Eglar, the Institute of Intercultural Studies, New York; published by Oxford University Press 2011
Editor: “We Are the Future”: A story of the Pakistani girl child, Family Planning Association of Pakistan, launched at UN Women’s Conference, Beijing August 1995.
- “Beena Sawar has provided exemplary editing, writing and consulting services for the Women’s Regional Network: Afghanistan, Pakistan and India the past several years. Beena not only has an in-depth understanding of complex geo-political issues, as well as human rights, gender and media, but has the ability to synthesize these issues, and merge the research of an array of authors into a final document that flows seamlessly, making their work vibrant and accessible for students and academics in learning institutions; as well as civil society organizations seeking to expand their understanding and advocacy; and informs government policy-makers to ensure policy decisions reflects the realities of people’s lives.”
— Patricia Cooper, Founder-Convenor, Women’s Regional Network; Denver, CO
Beena is knowledgeable, creative, fast, and pays rigorous attention to details. She read my manuscript (The Lonely War, published by Basic books, 2014) and helped make it much more powerful. I highly recommend her as an editor.
— Nazila Fathi, author, speaker, communications expert; Washington DC
I highly recommend Beena as an editor. She did a large amount of editing work on my dissertation at the Harvard School of Education on a short deadline without compromising on quality, professionalism and attention to detail. I was most impressed with her ability to quickly understand what i was looking for. She also has tremendous knowledge of many fields, which was a great bonus in picking up assumptions I was making in my writing style. I would work with her again and recommend her to anyone needing writing, editing, proofreading, and/or copy-editing support.
— Mariam Chughtai, Country Director Pakistan, Harvard South Asia Institute at Harvard University, Lahore, Pakistan
Journeys to democracy 