Feryal Ali Gauhar read Political Economy at McGill University, Montreal, studied Media Education at the University of London, trained as a television broadcaster in the Netherlands and as a film maker and development journalist at the University of Southern California. She served as a fellow of the Gates Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University in the area of Global Leadership in Population Issues. She has an MPhil in Cultural Heritage. She has been a columnist for Pakistan’s leading English language dailies, DAWN and Express Tribune, and is the author of three critically acclaimed novels: The Scent of Wet Earth in August (Penguin, 2002), and No Space for Further Burials (New Delhi, Lahore, Paris, Rome, Berlin, New York), and An Abundance of Wild Roses (Canongate, UK, 2024) Ms. Ali Gauhar has made over forty films on marginalization and poverty, with two acclaimed feature films made in 1994 and 1997. She served as the United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Population Fund from 1999 till 2004 when she resigned in protest against the second NATO led invasion of two sovereign countries.
Feryal lives in Lahore with 32 rescued animals.
