*This article was also published in The New York Times/Women in the World.* It’s something like Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, vying for the throne, but the setting is contemporary Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina Wazed and Khaleda Zia are at loggerheads, duking it out for the country’s prime ministership. Each claims her original political […]
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I am still in disbelief that in the middle of her interview on attracting women to the workforce, Arianna Huffington took a recorded question from me for Christine Lagarde today on HuffPost Live. Arianna Huffington is not only my media icon, but the Huffington Post was the first major online platform to publish my work.
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There has been a lot of controversy, to say the least, around Obama’s repeated refusal to call the fight against ISIS a war against radical Islam. Friday I was on CNN talking about why I agree with President Obama, and how he must avoid an all out religious war which would play right into ISIS’
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It was great returning to PBS’ To The Contrary last week to talk about the Vatican and women, female rangers, and Former UN official May Rihani’s new book in which she says Islam, the west, and other cultures are more similar than many realize. I could not agree with Ms. Rihani more, and I took
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I totally belief that feminism and gender equality cannot truly advance if we do not have our most important allies working hand in hand with us -men. Most feminists know and agree with this, but it still comes as a shock for others to hear, but just think about how much men lose from restrictive gender norms
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Politicos across Washington, DC were glued to their TVs as President Obama “an ambitious” State of the Union address Tuesday night. While he spoke about tax reform, a new middle class, and gas pipelines of course feminists were focusing on whether or not Obama would raise the issues that really matter, ie paid maternity leave,
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What is it like to be Muslim in America today, and how is the experience different than it may be in Europe, especially in light of the recent Paris attacks? That is what CNN America’s John Berman and I spoke about on Monday, analyzing the experience of Muslims in Europe, especially in France where secularism plays
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post & ClickIttefaq.* As the year wraps up and our social media news feeds become filled with lists ranging from the past year’s highlights to the coming year’s resolutions, my favorites catalogue just how hard 2014 rocked for feminists. “It’s clear 2014 was a historic one for feminism,”
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*This post of mine was also published in The Huffington Post & Click Ittefaq.* When I first caught Amal Alamuddin Clooney’s pearly whites smiling at me under the headline, The New Trophy Wife, I was elated. I love the positive message the international human rights lawyer’s image sets for women and girls, especially when it
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Saying it has been a difficult few weeks for anyone associated with the University of Virginia, as alum, students, faculty or sexual assault victims, would be an understatement. After the explosive investigative report in Rolling Stone magazine, my beloved alma mater became the face of the campus sexual assault in America. Who is to blame?
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