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The Bomb to End All Bombings – If Only
By Sanam Naraghi Anderlini
Does a 21,600 pound bomb solve the Daesh problem?
5 Ways We Can Defend Women’s Rights and Muslim Rights
By Sussan Tahmasebi
Five lessons I have learned from advocating women’s rights in Muslim contexts at the intersection of East and West
To veil or not to veil—That is a complex question
By Sussan Tahmasebi
Discussing the debate around the Swedish delegation’s women donning headscarves during their visit to Iran where compulsory veiling is a politically charged issue
Reasons to care about, abhor the executive order on immigration
By Melinda Holmes Last week, the country faced tremendous fallout from the Executive Order on Immigration, and its hasty implementation. Yet, in our rural northern towns the chaos and bustle of airport terminals full of civil rights lawyers and activists can easily...
Extremism’s Earliest Critics
By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini
Women Are Often the First to Raise the Alarm
Trump’s slap in the face of Lady Liberty
By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini
Will women be turned away from the UN Commission on the Status of Women, to be held in March, in New York? The world’s global institutions must fight the ‘Muslim Ban’, starting with the United Nations.
Keeping America Safe: From the Vulnerable
By Rana Allam
It is the civil and human rights advocates who will be kept out of the US. It is the children, the elderly, and the vulnerable refugees who will not be able to infiltrate the mighty US.
What Next? 10 Ways to Keep Up the Women’s March Momentum
By Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini
How do we sustain and build on the momentum of the millions who marched to bring about real changes?
Egypt: Hoping that the “Year of Women” will be nothing like the “Year of Youth”
By Rana Allam
Judging by what happened to Egypt’s youth in their “year”, women have every reason to fear theirs.
Five Steps to a Feminist Foreign Policy
By Jolynn Shoemaker and Sahana Dharmapuri
Today, in the United States of America, we need a feminist foreign policy more than ever.