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Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine.

My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

Fatima Buto is the author of a wonderful new novel called The Runaways, which is about post-colonial Pakistan and England and how three very different characters end up traveling

to Iraq to join a jihad for a fantasized caliphate for reasons that have nothing at all

to do with religious piety. Buto also writes about global pop culture and politics, and she has been

a close observer of Pakistani politics her entire life. She is the granddaughter of Prime Minister

Zulfiqar Ali Buto, who in 1977 was overthrown

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