Anushay Hossain
Bangladeshi-born Anushay Hossain is an author, commentator, writer and activist based in Washington, DC. She founded Anushay’s Point in 2009, and her work is regularly featured on Forbes Woman, The Huffington Post, The International Herald Tribune, Ms. Magazine Blog, National Public Radio (NPR), and The Washington Examiner.
Anushay began her career as an intern at the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Assistance Committee (BRAC) where she worked on micro-finance for women in her native country, Bangladesh. A University of Virginia graduate, Anushay joined the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Nobel Peace Prize nominated Campaign for Afghan Women prior to completing her MA in Gender and Development at the University of Sussex. She spent a year at the United Nations Development Fund for Women’s (UNIFEM UK) London office before returning to Washington, DC where she invests the majority of her work analyzing the impact of US foreign policy on the health and rights of women and girls around the world.
Anushay frequently travels to leading colleges and universities across the country giving talks on global women’s rights movements. She has spoken at Georgetown University, American University, George Washington University, NYU, Duke and Yale Law School. Anushay has appeared on Al-Jazeera, BBC Radio, National Public Radio (NPR), Canada’s CBC, and is regularly featured as a commentator on Russia Today (RT), as well as Sirius XM’s “Broadminded.”
A fervent lover of cultures, Anushay spent a year in Italy studying Italian and is fluent in six languages. She is married and lives in Washington, DC with her Iranian-American husband.
*Disclaimer: This blog is Anushay Hossain’s personal blog and is not reflective of her employer.
I think what you are doing is great, the more people become aware the more they will be willing to make changes.
I am impressed at the breadth of your coverage of the topic of women’s issues. You connect the problems of women of the most “privileged” classes such as the Japanese Crown Princess with those of women who are less prominent but still pressured in similar ways.
Thank you for reminding us about gender inequality, and keep up the good work. We need more voices like yours.
I just discovered your blog today thanks to Twitter. I love what you’re doing. The world needs more people like you in it!
I am impressed with the coverage of gender equality. All the best dear Anushay
Your blogs and articles are profound. Keep up the good work, Anushay!
I came across your website through youtube, were you shared your views about the $50 million spent by USA on Pakistan media.
Your blog is something completey different. I’ve been bought up in a pakistani family. I share very similar views to you. No-one else has started a blog quiet like yours.
Keep up the good work.
Thank you all so much! I write for you.
I like the way you expresses your ideas, thoughts, views and actions. I think the root cause to the problems faced by women in Muslim countries are due lack of education. I am just searching time to write something in your blogs in near future.
Aslamoalakum
I really liked the way you responded to the questions put up infront of you just saw that video on youtube about 50$ Million USD invested in Media Market. I knew that for some time, at the time when people were submitting their bidding/tenders. but my Intel was that it will be spent on creating Public messages through 3D Animation and target audience will be Teens to clear their heads from the doubts (huh?) about US. Anyways… I really wish if I could have a conversation with you, I have some question to ask to clear my head
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best Regards,
Dear Anushay,
I am thinking to create common blog for different persons of different sectors from different countries and I would like to include you as well due to your voice for woman’s right. This concept could help every writers to take among more people. If you are happy, pls write me in omram2002@gmail.com.
You are knowledgeable and intelligent personality.
Hello! Thank you for such a wonderful blog. Your emails are like a beacon of light out there for women and women of every colour. I so miss the feminist viewpoint in mainstream media. It just isn’t there. I do believe women can help shift the patterns of the world. And a major shift is what we need.
I am presently working to bridge the gap between the diverse socio-cultural communities in Vancouver, BC, and the green movement. Only together will be able to make change. I very much enjoyed the intelligence of your article in the Huffington Post titled “Climate Change Hits Women harder, So Where are the Feminist Voices”? I would welcome you to write a short article for our blog: http://www.rangichangi.ca
RangiChangi means vibrant of extremely colourful in Nepalese. We think this best sums up the tenor of our group. We are a grassroots group of volunteers dedicated to inclusiveness and to sharing information, creating networks, establishing relationships and sharing resources in order to address climate change. I’d like to be able to reach the women in the various ethnic communities, with a strong voice that speaks to them, that galvanizes them – us.
I hope to hear back from you soon!
Sincerely,
Kate
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I googled “bangladeshi feminist” on a whim, and your name was the first one to come up in the search results.
I’m loving the blog and also yay for getting postgraduate degrees in development from the UK! I got mine from UCL last year
I love your work, i love the power we women have.
there something interesting that is currently popular around the world and its a search engine (like google) targeted towards the muslim community, from what i understand it basically blocks porn, and allows its users to decide by a voting system what results could possibly be deemed as good or bad.
in other words it lets its users decide its content.
why i bring this is due to an article i read on the facebook page which the co-founder is a muslim woman, which i found to be extremely impressive
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/search-and-chat-website-for-the-modern-muslim-20100808-11qj7.html
there hasnt been much press on her as i can find , i think it woul dbe great for you to get in contact her specifcally and write about it, it would be extremely encouraging to muslim women out there to be aware of such women in information/data/web industry.
this is the search engine http://www.taqwa.me
ill be following you forever!
Hey Anushay,
I found out about your blog through your appearance on RT when you were discussing the exploitation of the Afghan girl who’s nose and ears were hacked off.
Didn’t even know you were Bengali until I read your ‘Trying to eat, pray and love’ entry. I thought it was a really nuanced piece and as a Bengali who by pure stroke of luck was born in a so-called developed country, I can happily say that I never ever take for granted how lucky I am to be able to travel freely. However I feel absolute disgust at the double standards that still exist in our world where the colour of your passport determines where you can go, so I really do feel for you.
Anyhoo keep fighting the good fight, your work really speaks to me,
A fellow BRAC alumnus.
Thanks so much for your comment, Emran! Thanks for taking the time to read my work, I really appreciate it. The color of one’s passport, sigh yes, has way too much power.
Amazing work. What languages do you speak?
Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu, Spanish, Italian- in that order! I’m also learning Farsi now.
very impressive !
Kudos to you! I hadn’t thugoht of that!
great! do let me know if you need any kinda help related to Pakistan.
BR,
SUFYAN
Great work !!
Gender Equality Ambassador.
Your work is greatly appreciated.
I am an IT Expert and would love to assist you in this cause, whenever an IT support is needed.
love the way you talk
Keep Up the Good work,I am gonna YouTube some more Interviews of you,:)
Thank you so much!
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Just wana say, you r doing good work and more important, u r quite hot and sizzling!
Good Job..!
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