*This post of mine is also published on The Huffington Post.* With all the controversy surrounding whether he himself is actually a Muslim, today US President Barack Obama visited the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a 47-year-old mosque with thousands of attendees, for the first time ever during his presidency. He stated that the purpose of […]
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I have always been fascinated by online media branding and marketing: How a company can change its entire image by changing its logo, updating its websites and social media. One of my favorite recent examples is how PolicyMic rebranded itself as Mic.com, and positioned itself as the voice of the coveted Millennial readership. But the brand
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The beginning of a new year means one thing in Tinseltown- award season. This week on PBS’ To The Contrary we talked about how the most important awards, the Oscars, are once again coming under attack for “being so white.” It’s more than just a case of bad dramatic deja vu, and as I argue
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*This post of mine is also published on The Huffington Post.* One of the things that I love about a brand new year are all the possibilities. That’s the great thing about resolutions- they aim to give us hope in everything we can accomplish in the year ahead. But 2016 is different and in Washington,
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Even though 2016 is a mere few hours away, and already arrived for many of you around the world, I still cannot believe 2015 is (almost) behind us. A big part of me feels exhausted trying to rethink the past 12 months, largely due to the world’s refugee crisis, the war in Syria, ISIS and
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This time of year is normally filled with superlatives and I have to admit I love it. As a writer, looking back and reflecting on the year is one of my favorite things to do, especially from a feminist perspective. Things at the end of 2014 were looking so good for women that I wrote
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*This post of mine is also published on The Huffington Post.* Mark Zuckerberg and I are best friends. Well, at least that is what I would like to believe by the number of times he has been appearing on my Facebook newsfeed lately. Mixed in with my real life friends’ baby announcements, professional milestones, and kids’ birthday party pictures is news
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Saying it is a scary time to be a Muslim in America is sadly a gross understatement. As I write this post US GOP Presidential Candidate, Donald Trump has just called for an all out ban on Muslims entering/immigrating to the US. Yes and in 2015. These are terrifying times for Muslim-Americans who in the run
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It may take two people to bring a child into this world, but once the baby gets here society usually likes to put the primary pressure on women and new mothers. My readers know how passionate I am about women in America getting ample (any?) paid maternity leave, but what is the case like when
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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
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