*This article of mine is published on CNN.* Afghanistan’s “peace deal” has been blown up. The government has resumed fighting the Taliban after a horrifying attack by gunmen on a maternity ward run by Doctors Without Borders in Kabul. Mothers and nurses were the main victims in the first attack, with 16 killed. Two of […]
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Remember when Republicans on Capitol Hill wanted to impeach President Obama for wearing a tan suit? Well, last week President Trump invited THE TALIBAN to Camp David for peace negotiations and we did not hear a peep from the GOP. I went on MSNBC’s Morning Joe to talk about the sheer hypocrisy of the Trump
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*This article of mine is published on Medium.* Explosions abound in Afghanistan this week as the Trump administration tries to wrap up negotiations and hand over power to the Taliban, the very same terrorist group the U.S. government vowed to wipe out at the start of America’s longest war back in 2001. Hashed out over months of
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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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People are always shocked to learn how widespread and easily available mobile technology is in “developing nations” like Bangladesh, Kenya, and Afghanistan. When my husband visited my city of birth, Dhaka last year he could not believe how many people had cell phones in a country where more than half of the population cannot access
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I was approached by The Daily Femme for an interview to be featured on their fantastic website for women. They had some really great questions for me on my favorite topic- feminism! We discussed the misconception surrounding women’s rights movements, my mother, my country Bangladesh, US foreign policy on global feminism, Yeardley Love’s murder at
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When it comes to Afghanistan, the US really did not need any more dramatic developments to say the least. But as June became the deadliest month for the U.S.-dominated military coalition in Afghanistan, drama is exactly what has escalated. In the past few months, we have seen the US openly bashed by their once Afghan
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Just when you thought nothing could make the US war in Afghanistan get any worse, it has. American public support for the war is at an all time low, more and more people want to call it a day in Kabul and bring the troops home, Afghan civilian causalities continue to mount, and the question
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It is always a good recipe for the media to sexualize the mystique which surrounds the ever elusive Muslim woman: Is she a burqa-clad victim of her own religion, or a strong woman of choices who is forever fighting off labels and stereotypes? Or is she a supportive partner to her terrorist male counterpart, plotting
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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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