Join Omar Shahid Hamid, author of The Fix, at the Sixth Sense Forum on 23 July 2019 at 4:00 pm at the Aga Khan University Auditorium in Karachi where he will discuss the issue of corruption in sport, specifically cricket, by going over the history of match fixing allegations in cricket, and how such allegations have changed our modern perceptions of a ‘gentleman’s sport’. He will also look at why these allegations seem to persist, and why South Asian players in particular seem to be more susceptible to getting involved in such activities, drawing upon various aspects of the topic as per his research for his recently released novel, “The Fix”.
About the Speaker – Omar Shahid Hamid
As part of the Karachi Police’s Counter Terrorism department, Omar Shahid Hamid has survived being ambushed by gangsters, implicated by colleagues in a false case, and, as CID chief, barely escaped the bombing of his office by the Pakistani Taliban. In 2011, following an attack on his offices by the Pakistani Taliban, he took a five-year sabbatical to write books and worked as a political risk consultant. In 2016, Omar returned to active duty as a Counter Terrorism Officer. He has been widely quoted and regularly featured in several publications including The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Times, Le Monde, Reuters, CNN and BBC. His first novel, The Prisoner (2013), was longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2015 and is now being adapted for a feature film. His second novel The Spinner’s Tale (2015) won the 2016 Karachi Literature Festival Prize. He received the award again for his third novel The Party Worker (2017) at the Karachi literature festival in 2018 which is now being adapted for a Netflix series
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