Obama has finally made a decision on Afghanistan which can pretty much be summed up as: “I make no decision and reject all the options you have given me.” Barack just wants to know which way the exit is. So basically the Administration’s decision on Afghanistan for now is more indecision. While it has become […]
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When I first heard about the shootings last Thursday at a military base in Fort Hood, Texas in which 13 people were killed and 30 were wounded, to be honest my initial reaction was, “God help us, not another mass shooting in America.” After all, I hate to say it, but these shootings are becoming
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I will always remember this past summer as the one during which Iran opened itself up to the world. Thirty years of silence since the 1979 Iranian Revolution was shattered when violence erupted on the streets of Tehran over the disputed (read: stolen) elections. There are so many iconic images that came from endless days
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Well, unless you live in Iceland. The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 2009 report on the Global Gender Gap last week, and Iceland is at the top of the list. The country has the highest gender equality index of 134 countries analyzed. According to the Feminist Majority Foundation, the WEF’s “Global Gender Gap Report 2009 determined
THE GLOBAL GENDER GAP: STATS ARE OUT AND THE NEWS IS NOT GOOD Read More »
I grew up knowing my country was drowning. My childhood memories are full of flashing images of annual monsoon rains making rivers out of our roads, lakes out of our rice paddy fields, washing away farmers’ harvests, pushing the rural population into our already overpopulated capital city. Of course the yearly floods alternated with even
CLIMATE CHANGE HITS WOMEN HARDER, SO WHERE ARE THE FEMINIST VOICES? Read More »
From New York to my home-base of Washington, I was busy taking my feminist messages to the airwaves last week. On PBS, I had the honor to be back on air with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Republic Strategist Rinah Shah, and Commentator Darlene Kennedy. We talked about the role sexism played, if any, in the
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*This piece of mine was also published on Forbes & The Huffington Post.* Last week, the Thomson Reuters Foundation outlined how Bangladesh, India’s much poorer and flood-prone neighbor, has had more success building bathrooms for its citizens. In just over a decade, Bangladesh managed to decrease the percentage of people defecating in the open from 19% in 2000 to just
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*This post of mine was also published in The Huffington Post.* The one thing everyone can agree about Iraq right now is that it is a mess. However, in the past week, the US military made tremendous gains against the extremist Islamic group, ISIS. One group on the ground worth singling out are Kurdish military women.
A Woman’s Job: Kurdish Female Fighters On The Front Lines In Iraq Read More »
*This post of mine was also published on Forbes Woman & The Huffington Post.* My personal interest in the field of mathematics was pretty much non-existent until this week when Iranian-born Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman ever to win the prestigious Fields Medal, considered to be the equivalent of mathematics’ Nobel Prize. That fact is also something I
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Sorry about the lack of regular posts from me dear readers, both on my personal blog and my regular platforms such as Forbes Woman, Huffington Post, & Ms. Magazine Blog. I am officially on maternity leave and have been trying to post regularly. My apologies for being away, but be assured I hope to be
Anushay’s Point Will Be Back… Read More »