Battling Islamophobia, at Swat and beyond
On Thanksgiving day, a taxi driver in Pittsburgh was shot in the back by his passenger because he was Muslim.
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Author: Rida Hassan
Grappling with misconceptions is not so easy
“Oh, you’re from Pakistan! So does that mean you, like, speak Hindu?” Um, no. I guess people were right when
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Sound of a gavel heard in US, but not in Pakistan
In Pakistan, ‘gay’ isn’t a word you use in polite society. In fact, a polite term for it does not
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Bursting not one bubble, but two
December 16, 2014, two days before I was due to leave campus for winter break, I stood in a room
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Looking through a new lens
Chester, Pennsylvania. Karachi, Pakistan. 34,000 people in one city, 23.7 million in the other, give or take. I attended Chester
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