Saulat Nagi is an Australian-Pakistani writer. He has authored several books on

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(Gramscian and Frankfurt schools) and

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. He is a regular columnist in one of

Pakistan Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...

's leading English language dailies, the '' Daily Times.'' He has written for other Pakistani dailies too, including

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and

The Frontier Post ''The Frontier Post'' is an independent English language daily newspaper founded in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1985. It publishes from Peshawar, Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi, and Quetta. History When the paper was founded in 1985, there were no pr ...

, as well as for local and international web-based news portals. He is a medical doctor by training. He received his bachelor's degree in

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from King Edward Medical University,

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, followed by postgraduate training in

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. He has authored six books in

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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). Among them are two biographies, one about Che Guevara, and the other about Fidel Castro. Other published works include: “Socialism or Barbarism”; “The Origin of Monotheistic Religions”; “Capitalism: A Civilizational Clash or Civilization of Clash?”; and a book on poetry “The Promise of Love”. He also translated

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’s work “

Materialism and Empirio-criticism ''Materialism and Empirio-criticism'' ( Russian: ''Материализм и эмпириокритицизм, Materializm i empiriokrititsizm'') is a philosophical work by Vladimir Lenin, published in 1909. It was an obligatory subject of study ...

” in Urdu. His first novel in

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, titled "And When She Smiled" was published in 2017. In a whirlwind of intolerance, his home in Pakistan was attacked in 2014 but he escaped unhurt. He is based in Sydney, and spends his time between Australia and

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nagi, Saulat Pakistani columnists Pakistani male journalists Pakistani expatriates in Australia Year of birth missing (living people) Living people