Last week I had the tremendous honor of attending an event with Her Majesty, Queen Rania of Jordan. She was in Washington to promote a great initiative for girls education called “10×10.” The fact that around the world millions of girls are still denied an education, unable to go to school for reasons ranging from […]
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A predawn raid today increased clashes between the military and civilian populations in Egypt, triggering women in Cairo to mobilize around the ongoing violence which in recent days has targeted women. This week horrifying images of just how brutal the military can be towards women went viral. The video showing military police dragging a woman
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I was interviewed by the wonderful site for South Asian-Canadian moms, Masala Mommas. It was my first interview as a new mom and I could not have been more excited to share and reflect on what I have learned as a proud new mom to my baby girl, Ava Aisha Pahlevani. Before I got pregnant,
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I can’t tell you how much I relied on my girlfriends for my sanity in my twenties. During our student days at the University of Virginia (UVA), we were each other’s roommates, psychiatrists, parents, and siblings. We stayed up late talking about the men in our lives, mulling over what feminism meant to us, and
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At the end of October, the UN has projected that the world’s population will reach 7 billion, a scary milestone amidst increasing global political and economic instability. More people will only place increased pressure on our environment, on the world’s habitats, forests, and resources such as water. But how does investing in women’s rights tie
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I had my first co-hosting gig today on Al-Jazeera! It was nerve wrecking and exhilarating all at the same time to be on their social media centered show, “The Stream,” discussing the recent Shia protests in Saudi Arabia, India’s ‘Iron Lady’s’ 11 year fast, and a new AIDS game application. If you missed the show, you
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L12REUQi6H4] “What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours,” is how the song goes, and the line could not ring more true for Saudi women. This week we saw Saudi King Abdullah grant women the vote in an effort to not only keep the “Arab Spring” away from his Kingdom, but also to quell
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Last week, I finally saw the film version of “The Help,” based on the best-selling novel by Kathryn Stockett about the lives of African-American maids working in white people’s homes in 1960’s Jackson, Mississippi. I hadn’t read the book prior to watching the movie which I really loved. Although the movie showed the racist and unfair treatment of primarily black
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I was interviewed by British NGO A Safe World for Women Founder, Chris Crowstaff recently on some topics very close to my heart: Bangladesh, Islam and feminism. Chris and I connected over Twitter (go social media!), and we made an appointment to have a conversation about these issues. The full interview is divided into four
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Hina Rabbani Khar was just appointed Pakistan’s first female foreign minister, but by reading the headlines you would be forgiven for thinking she had just become the country’s latest fashion export. Khar went over to India this week, marking the first official state visit between the two countries since the 2008 terrorist bombings in Mumbai,
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