Publications

Debating Bollywood's Obsession With Fair Skin Live on Canada's CBC.

Recent Publications:

• The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2012: “Demi Moore & Our Fear of Ageing.”
  
• The Express Tribune, January 24th, 2012: “Your Fake Face Forward.”
• The Express Tribune, January 21st, 2012: “Why Women Need to Complain More.”
  
• The Express Tribune, January 26th, 2012: “A Saudi Princess Speaks Up.”
  
• The Express Tribune, January 11th, 2012: “Women of the Arab Spring Fight Back.”
  
• Huffington Post, January 24th, 2012: “Princess Amira al-Taweel: Challenging Women’s Roles Around The World.”
  
• Forbes Woman, January 24th 2012: “A Woman’s Place: Saudi Princes in Row Over Kingdom’s Image.”
  
• The Huffington Post, December 21st, 2011: “Reclaiming the Revolution: Women in Cairo Refuse to be Sidelined.”
  
• Ms. Magazine, December 20th, 2011: “Egyptian Women Rally Around the Girl in the #BlueBra.”
  
• Forbes Woman, December 20th, 2011: “Reclaiming the Revolution: Women in Cairo Refuse to be Sidelined.”
  
• Forbes Woman, November 17th, 2011: “The Secret Lives of Wives & Mothers: Why Women Need to Complain More.”
• Huffington Post, November 1st, 2011: “Seven Billion People & Women’s Rights: What is the Connection?”
• Forbes Woman, October 31st, 2011: “Seven Billion People & Women’s rights: What is the Connection?”
• Forbes Woman, September 28th, 2011: “A Meaningless Vote? Saudi Women’s Rights Remain Stagnant.”
• Forbes Woman, September 13th, 2011: “The Help 2011? Domestic Worker Abuse Widespread.”
• Forbes Woman, June 27th, 2011: “Purses Over Policy? Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Makes Headlines.”
• Forbes Woman, July 19th, 2011: “Diary of a Pregnant Woman: My Top Five Pregnancy Don’ts.”
• Forbes Woman, July 12th, 2011: “A Beating for a Phone: Women Struggle to Access Mobile Technology.”
  
• Huffington Post, June 22nd, 2011: “Sexting: It’s Not Just Congressmen & Pop Stars Who Do It.”
  
• Forbes Woman, June 21st, 2011: “Sexting: It’s Not Just Congressmen & Pop Stars Who Do It.”
  
• Forbes Woman, June 17th, 2011: “Starting the Engine: Saudi Women Drive for Their Rights.”
  
• Forbes Woman, June 9th, 2011: “Huma Abedin: Anything But the Good Wife.”
  
• Forbes Woman, June 8th, 2011: “An Open Letter to Angelina Jolie on Syria.”
  
• Huffington Post, June 9th, 2011: “Virginity Tests: Time to Let Gender Out of Revolution’s Closet.“
  
• Forbes Woman, June 6th, 2011: “Virginity Tests: Time to Let Gender Out of Revolution’s Closet.”
  
• Huffington Post, May 19th, 2011: “Strauss-Kahn: Powerful Men & the Women Who Defend Them.”

Debating France's Burqa Ban Lie on Canada's CBC.

• Forbes Woman, May 17th, 2011: “Strauss-Kahn: Powerful Men & the Women Who Defend Them.“
  
• Ms. Magazine, April 21st, 2011: “My Big Fat Feminist Pregnancy.” 
• Forbes Woman, April 21st, 2011: “My Big Fat Feminist Pregnancy.”
• Forbes Woman, April 19th, 2011: “Three Empty Tea Cups? Possibly.”
• Forbes Woman, April 18th, 2011: “Sex & Crime in Indonesia: Why We Punish Women & Not Men.”
• Forbes Woman, April 13th, 2011: “The Case of Japan’s Princess Masako: Sons Over Daughters.”
• Forbes Woman, April12th, 2011: “Women Money Power Summit Informs Women Where to Invest Their Energy.“
• Ms. Magazine, April8th, 2011: “Live-Blogging Women Money Power Summit Day Two.”
• Ms. Magazine, April 4th, 2011: “Kate Middleton: To Obey or Succeed?”
• Forbes Woman, March 31st, 2011: “Kate Middleton: To Obey or Succeed?“
• Forbes Woman, March 22nd, 2011: “My Big Fat Feminist Wedding.”
• Forbes Woman, March 17th, 2011: “Vogue Highlights the Design of Dictators.”
• Ms. Magazine, March 14th, 2011: “Vogue Highlights the Design of Dictators.”
• Ms. Magazine, February 25th, 2011: “The War on Women Knows No Borders: Why Funding UNFPA Matters.”
• Forbes Woman, February 22nd, 2011: “From Bill to Berlusconi: Politicians’ Sex Scandals and Women’s Movements.”
• Ms. Magazine, February 15th, 2011: “Italian Women to Berlusconi: Basta!”
• Ms. Magazine, February 9th, 2011: “Murder Investigation Opened in Bangladeshi Girl’s Death.”
• Ms. Magazine, February 7th, 2011: “Bangladeshi Rape Victim Flogged to Death.”
• Ms. Magazine, February 4th, 2011: “Middle Eastern & North African Protests Shatter Myths About Muslim Women.”
• The Huffington Post, February 4th, 2011: “The Fight For Democracy: How Protests in Egypt & Iran Shatter Myths About Muslim Women.”
• Feministing, February 3rd, 2011: “The Fight for Democracy: How Protests in Egypt & Iran Shatter Myths About Muslim Women.”
• The Huffington Post, January 24th, 2011: “Your Breast Face Forward: The Controversy Over Nursing Your Newborn.”
• The Huffington Post, January 10th, 2011: “How your Citizenship Determines Your Travel.”
• Feministing, November 23rd, 2o10: “Kate Middleton & the Trouble With Fairytales.”
• The New Islander, November 6th, 2010: “My Big Fat Feminist Wedding.”
• Ms. Magazine, November 2nd, 2010: “My Big Fat Feminist Wedding.”
• Ms. Magazine, October 22nd, 2010: “United Arab Emirates: Where It’s Okay To Beat Your Wife and Kids.”
• Feministing, October 21st, 2010: “United Arab Emirates: Where It’s Okay To Beat Your Wife and Kids.”
• Huffington Post, October 20th, 2010: “Nobody’s Basket Case: Bangladesh Leads the Muslim World By Example.”
• The World Economic Forum, Gender Gap Report 2010 Media Coverage.
• Huffington Post, October 15th, 2010: “The Best Place To Be a Woman: World Economic Forum Measures the Gender Gap.”
• Ms. Magazine, October 15th, 2010: “The Best Place To Be a Woman.”
• Feministing, October 15th, 2010: “The Best Place To Be a Woman: World Economic Forum Measures the Global Gender Gap.”
• Feministing, October 7th, 2010: “Zulu Tradition Fuels Virginity Myths in South Africa.“
• Huffington Post, October 6th, 2010: “Dinner With A DC Housewife: Paul Wharton Is Who You Should Dine With.”
• The World Bank Blog, September 28th, 2010: “Improving Maternal Health in Bangladesh.”
• Ms. Magazine, September 28th, 2010: “Zulu Tradition Fuels Virginity Myths in South Africa.”
• Huffington Post, September 15th, 2010: “Virginal Powers: Zulu Tradition Fuels Sexual Myths in South Africa.”
• Huffington Post, August 26th, 2010: “A Mayor’s Courage: Bloomberg Continues To Fight For Park 51.”
• Huffington Post, August 19th, 2010: “Park 51: The Ground Zero Mosque Is Not A Mosque.”
• The Washington Examiner, August 19th, 2010: “Park 51: The Ground Zero Mosque Is Not A Mosque.”
• Open Salon, Editor’s Pick, August 18th, 2010: “Park 51: The Ground Zero Mosque Is Not A Mosque.”
• Ms. Magazine, August 5th, 2010: “Like Cattle: Cow Steroid Addiction Among Bangladeshi Prostitutes.”
• Huffington Post, July 28th, 2010: “The Ban: Hiding Our Deepest Fears Behind the Burqa.”
• Huffington Post, July 9th, 2010: “Bangladesh: Development Star?”
• Ms. Magazine, July 9th, 2010: “Bangladesh: Development Star?”
• Ms. Magazine, July 3rd, 2010: “Harry Potter Star May Have Been in Attempted Honor Killing.”
• Ms. Magazine, July 1st, 2010: “Got Oppression? Saudi Kingdom Keeps Women in the Stone Age.”
• Feministing, June 25th, 2010: “What’s Up Saudi? The Kingdom Insists on Keeping Women in the Stone Age.”
• Huffington Post, June 24th, 2010: “What’s Up Saudi? The Kingdom Insists on Keeping Women in the Stone Age.”
• Huffington Post, June 18th, 2010: “Obama, the Oval Office, And Lots of Oil.”
• Huffington Post, May 20th, 2010: “What Is So Controversial? First Arab-American Crowned Miss USA.”
• Feministing, May 19th, 2010: “What Is So Controversial? First Arab-American Crowned Miss USA.”
• Huffington Post, May 11th, 2010: “Murder in Jefferson’s Village: UVA Death Exposes Reality of Intimate Partner Violence.”
• Ms. Magazine Blog, May 10th 2010: “Sadly, UVA Lacrosse Killing Was Predictable.”
• Feministing, May 6th, 2010: “Murder in Jefferson’s Village: UVA Death Exposes Reality of Intimate Partner Violence.”
• Ms. Magazine Blog, May 4th, 2010: “A Woman Like Benazir.”
• Feministing, April 28th, 2010: “A Woman Like Benazir.”
• Huffington Post, April 28th, 2010: “A Woman Like Benazir.”
• Huffington Post, April 7th, 2010: “The End of the Affair: Karzai No Longer the Puppet US Needs Him To Be.”
• Huffington Post, March 31st, 2010: “Watering Your Neighbor’s Garden: The Global War On Baby Girls.”
• Ms. Magazine Blog, March 19th, 2010: “Was Desirée Rogers Too Powerful or Too Black?”
• Huffington Post, March 17th, 2010: “Too Powerful or Too Black? The Fall of White House Staffer Desirée Rogers.”
• Feministing, March 17th, 2010: “Too Powerful or Too Black? The Fall of White House Staffer Desirée Rogers.”
• Feministing, March 10th, 2010: “The Price Of Excluding Women: World Economic Forum Tracks Gender Pay Gaps.”
• Ms. Magazine Blog, March 8th, 2010: “The Case of Japan’s Princess Masako: Sons Over Daughters.”
• Huffington Post, March 8th, 2010: “The Case of Japan’s Princess Masako Shows Us The Value Still Placed On Sons Over Daughters.”
• Feministing, March 8th, 2010: “The Case Of Japan’s Princess Masako Shows Us The Value Still Placed On Sons Over Daughters.”
• Feministing, March 1st, 2010: “The Real Questions We Should Be Asking Lady Al- Qaeda.”
• Huffington Post, February 28th, 2010: “Sexting: The Latest Challenge in Parenting?”
• Huffington Post, February 9th, 2010: “Palin Crowns Herself Queen of the Party.”
• National Public Radio (NPR), January 26th, 2010: “France, S’il Vous Plait, A Burqa Ban Is Not The Answer.”
• Huffington Post, January 26th, 2010: “For France, Banning The Burqa Is Not The Answer.”
• Feministing, “Banning The Burqa Is Not The Answer.”
• Huffington Post, January 13th, 2010: “Why The Attacks On Hillary Clinton Must Stop.”
• Feministing, January 13th, 2010: “Why The Attacks On Hillary Clinton Must Stop.”
• Huffington Post, January 4th, 2010: “Security Could Be Obama’s Downfall.”
• Huffington Post, December 23rd, 2009: “Making The Burqa Sexy? A New Frontier in Advertising?”
• Feministing, December 23rd, 2009: “Making The Burqa Sexy: A New Frontier in Advertising?”
• Ms. Magazine, Fall 2009, “Copenhagen: A Feminist Response.” (article linked)
• Huffington Post, December 15th, 2009: “Berlusconi: The Symbolism Behind the Blood.”
• Huffington Post, December 8th, 2009: “Au Revoir Minarets? The Swiss Message To Muslims.”
• Huffington Post, December 1st, 2009: “Today’s Politician’s Wife Is No Longer Standing By Her Man.”
• Feministing, November 30th, 2009: “Today’s Politician’s Wife Is No Longer Standing By Her Man.”
• Women’s ENews, November 19th, 2009: “Feminist Voices Missing in Climate Change Debate.”
• Huffington Post, November 17th, 2009: “Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices?”
• Feministing, November 17th, 2009: “HIV/AIDS Is A Woman’s Disease.”
• Huffington Post, November 13th, 2009: “What Obama Wants in Afghanistan- And What Women Need.”
• Feministing, November 13th, 2009:  “Afghanistan: What Obama Wants and What Women Need.”
• Feministing, November 2, 2009: “Climate Change Hits Women Harder, So Where Are the Feminist Voices?”
• Feministing, June 11th, 2009: “The Women’s Vote in Upcoming Iranian Elections.”
• Feministing, May 18th, 2009:  “Measuring Cairo at 15: Why Investing in Women’s Health Has Never Been More Urgent.”
• Women’s ENews, May 26th, 2009: “Despite Promise, Better Maternal Care is Unrealized.”
• New World: News and Comment on the United Nations, October 2006: “Environmental Degradation and the Search for Fire in Africa.”
• Washington Life Magazine, Fall 2008.
• Sapna Magazine, February 14th, 2008: “The Color Complex: Is The Fixation Really Fair?”