It is becoming frighteningly clear by the day that Donald Trump will end up winning the Republican nomination, and it has never been more clear that America needs Hillary Clinton. At the beginning of the year, I wrote about why America needs a female President, mainly because it is ranked so poorly globally when it […]
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*The post of mine is also published on The Huffington Post & The Daily Ittefaq.* Prince William & Kate’s recent tour of India & Bhutan was quite a royal success. In an increasingly visual world, the photo opportunities alone of the Royal Couple provided a priceless public relations campaign for the British Royal Family that the
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*This post of mine is also published on Women in the World/New York Times.* One of my earliest memories about Bangladesh’s 1971 War of Independence is a story my mother told me about the bodies Pakistani soldiers would dump across the capital, Dhaka. She said you would go to search the mass graves in certain
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After Fmr. US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright and feminist icon, Gloria Steinem suggested a few weeks back that young women are entitled to vote for Hillary it seemed as though the Clinton campaign would not recover from making millennial women feel obligated to vote for Hillary solely based on her gender, not her policies.
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So much controversy has erupted over Gloria Steinem and fmr. Secretary of State, Madeline Albright’s apparent chiding of younger women voters that personally, I am annoyed by the story. And that is exactly what I said when I went on CNN with Democratic strategist, Hillary Rosen. Although the clip shows the part of the segment during which
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_wYxHi9Wq0 It may be a brand new year, but Republican candidates are not letting go of unleashing anti-Muslim terror and fervor as the race to the White House escalates. So where does this put Obama’s first US mosque visit? I went on Hearst TV’s new show, Matter of Fact with host, Fernando Espuelas to try and
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*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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