Last week, when 14 year old Texas high-school student, Ahmed Mohammed got arrested by his school for bringing his invention, a clock, to his school it only took American-Muslims a few seconds to recognize what a wrong and racist act had just taken place. But sadly, these days these kinds of incidences are just becoming […]
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After four years of the Syrian war, the world finally woke up to the region’s refugee crisis when the body of three year old, Aylan Kurdi washed upon the shores of Bodrum, Turkey. Just two years ago, we attended a beautiful long weekend in the resort town when one of my closest friends from college
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Talk about coming full circle. Three years ago Al-Jazeera English (AJE) took myself & AnushaysPoint.com on air by inviting me to be a guest on their social media driven show, The Stream. The show was really revolutionary and pioneering for its time, giving viewers a forum using social media. My two appearances, the first just
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After its summer hiatus, PBS’ To The Contrary returned with a bang. On Friday, my fellow To The Contrary panelists and I, with our legendary host, Bonnie Erbe, tackled sexual assault on campus, Donald Trump, immigration and Hillary Clinton’s stance on women’s rights. My stipulation always focuses on identifying rape culture, first and foremost. Most
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*This post of mine was also published on The Daily Beast.* This morning, Raja, a 16-year-old Bangladeshi boy, was beaten to death at a local political party heavyweight’s home after being accused of stealing the BCL (Bangladesh Chhatra League) leader’s laptop and mobile phone from his Hazaribagh residence on the outskirts of the country’s capital, Dhaka. However, it
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One of the most vivid memories I have from my childhood home in Bangladesh involve Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. The book was always present in my parents’ various bookshelves, and although I never fully grasped the depth of the work until I was older, the faded, sepia shades of the book’s cover was always somewhere
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*This post of mine was also published on The New York Times/Women In The World.* Perhaps no single organization embodies the intense politics surrounding women’s reproductive rights in the US as profoundly as Planned Parenthood does. The iconic women’s health organization, which provides basic healthcare to low- and middle-income families, is no stranger to political
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It was great to discuss one of my favorite feminist topics, the role Millennial women are playing in the current movement, on PBS’ To The Contrary last week. I think younger women have long gotten slack for not being as passionate or active as their feminist predecessors, but I think millennial feminists are fearless. I
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Most of my readers know that before going full-time with my writing three years ago, I spent close to a decade working as a feminist policy analyst on Capitol Hill in Washington. That means that working and lobbying to ensure US foreign policy protected women’s health & rights was my job. So at the core,
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Last week on PBS’ To The Contrary we recorded a special episode which allowed us to delve into and discuss issues at a longer length than normal. Tackling welfare, entitlements & how the school system punishes girls of color is no easy task. But in my responses I found that I do believe believe it is
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