This month, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry investigating the death of Benazir Bhutto released a report which tells us nothing we did not already know: The 2007 assassination of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Bhutto could have been prevented if the government of then President Pervez Musharraf had provided her with “adequate security”. Thank you, […]
A Woman Like Benazir Read More »
Anybody that grew up in the Indian Subcontinent (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh), especially as a woman, believed one thing: Being fair is better. Lighter skin was always and continues to be equated with success in all realms of your life. How many of us Desi women can count the times we heard the phrase, “She is
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For me, the issue of the burqa ban in Europe was a closed one when the initiative finally failed last month in France. But then it was taken up in Belgium where it is more than likely to pass. I debated the issue of it being banned in Belgium live on BBC Radio last week.
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I always credit my mother for giving me my feminist soul. From the earliest days of my childhood in Bangladesh, mom would always take me to all her women’s rights activist events. When she began to get involved in the publishing world to launch her own magazine Ananya for Bangladeshi women, I used to sit
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Just when you thought nothing could make the US war in Afghanistan get any worse, it has. American public support for the war is at an all time low, more and more people want to call it a day in Kabul and bring the troops home, Afghan civilian causalities continue to mount, and the question
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I was on Russia Today (RT) live yesterday evening discussing something I had never heard about until I was asked to come and talk about it: Islamoeroticism. Now one can imagine just from the name alone how controversial this latest series of art has caused both in the Muslim world and beyond. I argue that
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