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Egypt’s Veiled First Lady: Clues To Where Women Fit Into New Egypt?

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Everybody wants to know where women fit into the new Egypt. After an electrifying revolution, leading to the end of President Hosni Mubarak‘s three decade long dictatorship, the “women question” awaited the country’s first democratically elected leadership. The world watched as Egyptian women, young and old, Christian and Muslim, fought alongside their brothers, slept next to them […]

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Baby Boom: Who Really Wins the Baby Weight Game?

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There used to be a time when you would see pictures of only celebrity moms holding their newborn baby in their arms, while flaunting their new mom thighs in their size 2 skinny jeans, just weeks after having given birth. I want to say this phenomenon of blinking and losing baby weight began with superhuman

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The Best Place To Be a Woman: A Conversation With Monique Villa

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Canada is the best place to be a woman, and India is the worst according to a new poll by Thomson Reuters Foundation. The legal news service launched a global poll of experts this week ranking countries for women in the G20, putting the US, which “polarised opinion due to issues surrounding reproductive rights and affordable healthcare,” in sixth place. Access to healthcare and policies that advocate gender equality

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1971 Rapes: Bangladesh Cannot Hide History

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The post- Liberation War generation of Bangladesh know stories from 1971 all too well. Our families are framed and bound by the history of this war. What Bangladeshi family has not been touched by the passion, famine, murders and blood that gave birth to a new nation as it seceded from Pakistan? Bangladesh was one

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41 Years Later: Women’s Rights in Bangladesh

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This past Monday, the 26th of March, was Bangladesh’s 41st Independence Anniversary. I was so happy that the issue of women’s rights four decades after we separated from Pakistan was featured on “The Stream” on Al-Jazeera. I had worked for months to get this issue on air. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcsknTDJN4M&feature=player_embedded#!q] Bangladesh is often touted as a “development

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What is the Rush? Learning & Accepting the Art of Slowing Down

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Last week, my husband and I made a trip down to Charlottesville to my alma mater, the University of Virginia (UVA), with our six month old daughter, Ava. It was honestly one of the happiest days of my life, walking through the university grounds, showing my college where I had gained a priceless education with

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No Country for Old Women: Demi Moore & Our Fear of Aging

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Demi Moore’s recent divorce from her younger husband, Ashton Kutcher, and subsequent trip to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction have been documented all too well in the tabloids. We read the headlines, and exclaim our shock and horror at Moore’s “pathetic” behavior. Unable to keep her much younger man,  losing the battle with Mother

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A Woman’s Place: Saudi Princes in Row Over Kingdom’s Image

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Saudi women have taken the wheels in recent months literally by defying the country’s notorious driving ban, and figuratively in attempting to advance their rights in the wake of the Arab Spring in the famously “conservative” Kingdom which allows women virtually no rights without male guardianship or representation. In addition to the battles Saudi women

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