An adapted and updated version of my original piece on how the Italian feminist movement has been impacted by the scandals of Silvio Berlusconi was featured in Forbes! I could not be more excited. You can view the piece, which compares the experiences of Bill Clinton to Silvio, and how women’s movements reacted to each […]
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHHNfZqMX88] Today Bangladeshis stop to remember one of the most emotional and important dates in our country’s history. On this day in 1952, after the “Principles Committee of the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan” announced that Urdu would be the only state language of East and West Pakistan, a huge wave of protests erupted in Bangladesh,
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Recently I have been writing on how Arab and Muslim women have taken to the streets in political protest, shattering stereotypes in the process. Over the weekend we saw another group of women do the same, this time in Italy. While Italian women are most commonly associated with the classic maternal image of “Mama,” the
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**This is a developing story and has been updated** Hena Begum, a 14-year-old old Bangladeshi girl, was publicly flogged recently in Shariatpur, 35 miles outside of the capital, Dhaka after being accused of having an affair with her 40-year-old old married cousin. According to the BBC, a village court made up of Islamic clerics and elders
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Anyone remember what one of the most striking images to surface from Iran’s uprising last summer over the fallout from the country’s so-called elections were? Iranian women protesting. The world was shocked to see Iranians, 70% of whom are under that age of 25 yrs old, pour onto the streets demanding their votes be counted.
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