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Fahmida Riaz (Urdu: فہمیدہ ریاض‎) is a popular Progressive Urdu writer, poet, and feminist of the state Pakistan. Fahmida Riaz is the proposed author of Godaavari, Khatt-e Marmuz, and Khana e Aab O Gil, the 1st translation of the Masnavi of Jalaluddin Rumi from the language of Persian into Urdu. She has also translated the works of Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai and Sheikh Ayaz from the language of Sindhi to Urdu.

Fahmida Riaz took active part in social and political works throughout her academic life. She spoke and wrote influnetially against the University Ordinance and the ban on the students’ union during the Ayub Khan era. She spent several years in exile in the state of India in the time period of 1980s during the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq, living in the city of Delhi and teaching at Jamia Millia Islamia. She amused the patronage of the Indian Government. Her husband, an activist of Sindhi nationalism, had also accompanied her to the state of India.