It was on PBS’ To The Contrary that I made my US TV debut in 2013, so it’s always a great pleasure to be back. This week we discussed empowering Muslim women, the upcoming November midterm elections, and oh, I served major side-eye to Trump loyalist, Roger Stone’s former wife, Anne Stone. Watch below!
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So much of my writing and work focuses on elevating the voices of women and girls of color, so it was great to be on the other side of things when Miss Muslim interviewed me for their website. The platform is “where all of the patriarchy’s worst nightmares come to life,” and their mission is
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*This post of mine is published in The New York Times/Women in the World.* “Pro-Hijab,” Nike’s new performance hijab line, specifically designed for Muslim women athletes, will not officially be in stores until the spring of 2018, but its extensive marketing campaign is already under way. As the sports apparel giant turns to the Middle East for
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*This post of mine is published on Forbes Woman.* Employing their own spin on the popular “100 Years of Beauty” online videos, MuslimGirl.com just launched a new series, “100 Years of Hijab Fashion in 1 Minute,” to dismiss common misconceptions and stereotypes about the hijab, and more importantly, the women who wear it. MuslimGirl’s founder, and Forbes
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Muslim women are the topics of much conversation and debate in today’s socio-political climate, and the latest To The Contrary episode brought together a special all Muslim woman panel to tackle a series of controversial issues. Needless to say, things got heated and tense fast. I take a lot of issue with women being told
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*This post of mine is also published on The New York Times/ Women in the World.* If you want to hear Yasmine Al-Massri — who plays identical twin Muslim FBI agents Nimah and Raina Amin in hit series Quantico — reduced to laughter, ask her about the dialect coach she shared with the show’s Indian-born megastar, Priyanka
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*This post of mine was also published on The Huffington Post & ClickIttefaq.* As the year wraps up and our social media news feeds become filled with lists ranging from the past year’s highlights to the coming year’s resolutions, my favorites catalogue just how hard 2014 rocked for feminists. “It’s clear 2014 was a historic one for feminism,”
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This past May, an interview with an Australian doctor, who performed late-term abortions on Bangladeshi rape victims from the 1971 War of Independence, came to my attention. The more I read and the more I researched online, I found countless testimonies and even some old news footage, providing evidence to what Bangladeshis already know, but
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There is no doubt that the recent revolution in Egypt got the wheels of the Arab Spring rolling. But just as quick as women were to flood the corners of Tahrir Square and the streets of Cairo in the hopes of a democratic Egypt, their voices were soon sidelined. This is nothing uncommon. Even in
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Two Indonesian women, Selly Yustiawati and Melinda Dee are making headlines in the Indonesian press for their alleged involvement in a scam across several cities in the country involving millions of rupiah. One of the women, Inong Melinda, 47 who went by the alias of Melinda Dee, is a former Senior Manager at Citibank. While
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