I managed to make a quick trip back to the motherland, Bangladesh last month to visit family. It’s always a shock to the system to go back to where I come from and then zoom back into Washington life, but the perspective I gain is invaluable. One of the best things I managed to do […]
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Finally going full-time with my writing two years ago also gave me control over one of my favorite aspects about my work- meeting passionate, driven young women across the country. This year, I was honored to be invited to Oklahoma State University (OSU) to speak about women’s rights as human rights. In addition to being one
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Last Friday, I was honored to return to PBS’ To The Contrary to talk about the impact US troop withdrawal will have on women’s rights in Afghanistan. Afghan women’s rights was the first feminist human rights issue that I was involved with, and it really galvanized my work. It was the focus of my first
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*This post of mine was also published on Women in the World/ The New York Times.* Bangladesh is often touted as a development star. The nation has famously slashed maternal deaths by 40 percent in the last decade, pioneered micro-finance and increased women’s participation in the country’s economy. But for millions of women in this
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Anybody that knows me, knows I am a huge fan of my alma mater, the University of Virginia. Not only is it one of the best academic institutions nationally and internationally, my college days were instrumental in making me the person I am today. As an English Literature major, with a minor in Asian history, my
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The controversy around the British documentary, India’s Daughter, which interviews the alleged rapists from the infamous 2012 gang-rape of a female student on a New Delhi bus, continues to rage. I spoke with CNN’s Carol Costello last week about why India is banning this documentary, and I stressed that journalism here is not the crime,
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post.* Women’s History Month is underway, and next week we celebrate International Women’s Day, but how many of us actually know what this day is all about? International Women’s Day began in the early 1900’s during a time when American women were becoming more vocal
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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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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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*This post of mine was also published on MasalaMommas & The Huffington Post.* The other morning, my 3 ½ year-old daughter was throwing a fit about not wanting to go to school. Because I was trying to put her socks on her feet at the time, she felt it was necessary to grab onto me by the
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