*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* If you blinked, you may have missed the meeting between Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh and Myanmar’s current Opposition Leader and Nobel Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, at the beginning of this month. Both women inherited their political capital from their late fathers, […]
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*This post was published on Masala Mommas, Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post Canada.* Any woman can tell you that as a feminist, your morals and boundaries are constantly being challenged, and none more so than when you are both Asian and feminist. As with any culture, our traditions come laden with sexist traditions and customs, and if
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*This post of mine was also published in Forbes Woman.* I am still wiping my tears from Lupita Nyong’o’s Oscar acceptance speech. But all the Hollywood fawning and ogling over her is making me more uncomfortable than proud, mainly because it serves as a reminder that moments like this for women of color do not occur nearly as
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Wonderful to begin the new year with my writing premiering on the Daily Beast, and returning twice to PBS’ To The Contrary, the show I made my US TV back in November of 2013. In the first episode, we talk about unwed mothers and putting caps on their benefits, Spelman College, more women of color getting
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*This post of mine was also published on Forbes.* Last month when Beyonce’s massively successful secret album launched, I had it on repeat for weeks, and danced all over my house with my baby girl to the addictive beats of “Flawless,” “XO,” “Grown Woman,” and “Pretty Hurts” just to name a few. With her latest
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*This post of mine was also published on Huffington Post.* Poverty, natural disasters, and cheap labor may be what you would normally associate with Bangladesh, but India’s neighbor could be Asia’s next major startup hub. “Bangladesh is becoming a land of opportunity,” says Samad Miraly, a Canadian-Bangladeshi angel investor based in Dhaka. “It’s a place
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I went home to Bangladesh after three years last month, and although the trip was personal and I try to make a point not to work, I was too honored to turn down an invitation to speak at the Fortnightly Anannya’s auditorium in Dhaka. The publication, amongst its many other social contributions, also manages a
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I do not believe in beginning a new year with an apology, but that is precisely what I owe to my fabulous feminist readers for being slightly MIA as 2014 gets underway. I am wrapping up my first trip home to Dhaka after a few years, but that does not mean I have not been
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*This post of mine was also published in The Daily Beast.* As a young girl in Bangladesh, you could say I grew up parallel to the legendary rivalry between the country’s main political foes, Sheikh Hasina and Begum Khaleda Zia: two very powerful women with some serious political capital. Hasina is one of the only
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Wrapping up another great week at Al-Jazeera and it never ceases to amaze me how much I learn from each show we do. From Kuwait’s demand for democracy to young scientists changing the world to Argentina’s message war to the use of social media in the Israel-Palestinian crisis to medicating poverty, each time I co-anchor the Stream, I
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