“It is clear that the country’s situation is in a state of conflict, wherein the burden of centuries old customs are still felt deeply and staunch patriarchs are in power.” Hina Zahir Imam writes about the SHEvolution in Saudi Arabia.
“The Pink Taxi service… launched in March 2017 in Karachi and is already seeing an overwhelmingly positive response.” Ifra Asad reports on Paxi.
“Immigration policy in the United States has always been prone to xenophobia and racism.” Constance A. Dunn dispels the myth of America’s immigration values.
“But what was wanting in the coverage was an understanding of the problem… — patriarchal society itself.” Sana Ullah writes on honour killing from the point of view of a lawyer who works with the men who commit it.
“The poetry of two black American female poets, Phillis Wheatley and Alice Dunbar-Nelson, are both, if not political statements, records of the politics of their time.” Steven Chung reflects on the poetry of two African American women.
“Following every international or domestic terrorism act committed by a Muslim, the American-Muslim community divides under pressure…” Sharmin Sadequee investigates the meaning and repercussions of collective responsibility.
“They grab you and pack their belongings quickly and they flee. They flee to another land… but don’t hold your breath. The storm isn’t over.” Juan Zapata’s impassioned letter confronting racism.
“The tradition of adapting English words as part of Bengali colloquial speech is at least two-hundred-years old.” Chitralekha Basu explores the English language in everyday Bengali speech.
“In Asia alone, there live 4.4 billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people. But when top-notch recruitment firms in the West claim they found a new multimillion pay-packet CEO after a “global” search, just how global was it?” Vinay Kolhatkar continues his investigation into the prejudice against foreigners in the Western working world.
“…the glass-ceiling bias impeding immigrants is manifested in a bias against those speaking with non-native accents, the strongest signal of immigrant status — detected quickly and apparent almost continuously.” Vinay Kolhatkar investigates the glass ceiling for immigrants in English-speaking countries.