The world mourns what happened in Paris last week, but most Muslims around the world immediately had to go into defense-mode as both backlash and rhetoric against us intensified in the aftermath of the devastating attacks in France. American political candidates are not helping the situation by exploiting the Paris attacks for their own political …
*This post of mine is also published on Forbes Woman.* Despite seeing her face plastered on billboards across the country all summer, every Sunday evening when I tune into ABC’s hit show, Quantico, watching Bollywood star, Priyanka Chopra as the lead character still gives me goosebumps. After almost a decade in the US as a South Asian …
A series of apparently endless attacks on secular writers in Bangladesh continue to rock the nation & the world. After publishing my piece on the murders in The Daily Beast, I went on HuffPost Live to analyze what the deaths mean in the larger context of regional politics & Bangladeshi identity. There are so many …
*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* A spate of assaults confirms that secular Bangladeshi bloggers, and apparently those who dare to publish their work, are very much under attack in the one of the world’s most populated Muslim countries. Yesterday, two separate violent attacks on the lives of publishers and …
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If you spend any time online then you know that when it comes to US Supreme Court Justices perhaps none are as revered as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, or as the Internet lovingly refers to her, the “Notorious RGB.” Authors of the new book on the Justice, Irin Carmon & Shana Knizhnik joined HuffPost Live host, …