They say you are only as good as the company you keep. In that case, I could not be more honored and thrilled to be on HuffPost Women’s list of 27 Influential Women telling you why we are voting, and more importantly, why on November 4th you should, too: In 2014, legislation that could significantly impact […]
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Is there anything I love more than discussing feminism with intelligent women? The answer would be no. It was so great to be on HuffPost Live from New York City talking about all the major women’s stories of the week with the always fabulous Caroline Modrassey-Tehrani. We discussed the importance of new legislation in California
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This week marks the 94th Anniversary of women in America winning the right to vote. Although there is much to celebrate, much work remains. That was the core of my message when I appeared on HuffPostLive on Tuesday. America remains one of the few industrialized countries in the world without paid maternity leave, access to
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When I first launched my blog in 2009, my only two readers were my husband and my mother. It would have stayed that way as well if my post on Afghan women didn’t get picked up by chance by The Huffington Post, the most linked to blog in the world. Flash-forward to six years later,
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*This post of mine was published on Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post.* When I was growing up in Bangladesh in the early 1980s, I used to imagine America as a feminist utopia. Before I even stepped foot on her soil, I pictured America as a country where women enjoyed full equal rights, especially when it came to controlling
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*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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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 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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It was a huge honor, and so much fun, to celebrate the first United Nations International Day of the Girl Child at Ms. Magazine’s 40th Anniversary Luncheon at the Washington Press Club in downtown DC. Sandwiched between my feminist icons, Eleanor Smeal and Gloria Steinem, I had to express my honor and disbelief at this
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