Mr Raza Naeem is a Pakistani social scientist, book critic, and an award-winning translator and dramatic reader based in Lahore, Pakistan. He has been trained in Political Economy from the University of Leeds, UK; and in Middle Eastern History and Anthropology from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, USA. He is currently the President of the Progressive Writers Association (Anjuman Taraqqi Pasand Musannifeen) in Lahore, Pakistan.