The way the world & I viewed Bangladesh changed forever Friday night when an upscale restaurant in the center of Dhaka city, owned by friends, came under attack, culminating in a tense twelve hour standoff which left 20 hostages, many of the foreigners, dead. As my family and friends mourn community members, family members, colleagues, […]
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*This post of mine is published on Forbes Woman.* Sexism in Hollywood is no secret, and things have gotten so bad that the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) urged federal and state civil rights agencies to probe “the systemic failure to hire women directors at all levels of the film and television industry.” Just last
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*This post of mine is published on Forbes Woman.* Employing their own spin on the popular “100 Years of Beauty” online videos, MuslimGirl.com just launched a new series, “100 Years of Hijab Fashion in 1 Minute,” to dismiss common misconceptions and stereotypes about the hijab, and more importantly, the women who wear it. MuslimGirl’s founder, and Forbes
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*This post of mine is also published on The Daily Ittefaq.* It feels like Independence Day here in Washington as America wakes up to history with Hillary Clinton securing the Democratic presidential nomination, officially becoming the first woman in America’s 240 year history to lead the presidential ticket of a major political party, as CNN
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Hillary Clinton may have made history this week, but despite crushing her opponent the polls predicted a narrow win and a close competition. And even though Clinton won the biggest prize, California, and became the first woman to ever win a major party’s nomination in the US’ 240 year history, Bernie Sanders refuses to concede,
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Many of my readers do not know this, but when I was 17 years old, I went to a writer’s camp at the University of Virginia (UVA), where I ended up going to college the following year. However, it was at the Young Writer’s Workshop that I first discovered my writer’s soul. Over the weekend,
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Muslim women are the topics of much conversation and debate in today’s socio-political climate, and the latest To The Contrary episode brought together a special all Muslim woman panel to tackle a series of controversial issues. Needless to say, things got heated and tense fast. I take a lot of issue with women being told
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*This post of mine is also published on The New York Times/ Women in the World.* If you want to hear Yasmine Al-Massri — who plays identical twin Muslim FBI agents Nimah and Raina Amin in hit series Quantico — reduced to laughter, ask her about the dialect coach she shared with the show’s Indian-born megastar, Priyanka
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Battle of the parties or battle of the sexes? The race for the White House is in full speed, and Trump and Clinton have apparently have decided who they are up against: each other. Instead of backtracking on his revoltingly offensive comments about Clinton, Trump has decided to double-down it seems, blaming her on Monday
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Although many have all but written off Bernie Sanders’ chances of securing the Democratic nomination, Hillary stipulated on CNN that she does not consider herself the presumptive nominee, despite it now being mathematically impossible for Sanders to win at this point. I went on CNN’s Newsroom to talk about what Clinton needs from Sanders, focusing
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