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Its Not About Gender or Race Anymore

Ras Siddiqui Feb 17, 2008

America has certainly (and finally) come a long way to witness and participate in an election which will choose between a black man and a woman to run for President.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and New American Dreams

Ras Siddiqui Jan 20, 2008

Whether it is the Iowa win for Obama or the New Hampshire one for Clinton, their vision for America’s future is becoming far more important than race and gender.

Daughters of Hajar

Mohammad Gill Jun 5, 2007

Hajar was Prophet Abraham’s wife and the mother of Ismael. Abraham took them to Mecca (at the site of the Masjad-al-Haram) and abandoned them there (at Allah’s command?). Identifying herself with Hajar, Asra chose to call her organization 'Dau

War of the Sexes

Gita Roy Jun 18, 2006

Why are there so many neurotic women today? Have millions of women always been this way, or is it a problem of our times only? Why — if being feminine can be so pleasant — do some women hold onto their neurosis though they know they can get he

Bollywood and Gender Equality

Saad Khan Apr 25, 2006

Bollywood has been abused at the hands of the male dominant Indian Cinema elite that not only includes directors and producers, but also the Indian political elite who have shrewdly used cinema for their own interests

Advantage, Men

sameena khan Jun 16, 2005

Not all men… are such perverts though. You still have a gentlemanly breed, at your neighborhood pharmacies, which unfailingly wrap the sanitary napkin of your choice in a newspaper, tie it up with a thread and put it in a black shopper.

Media: Defining Roles

Zebunnisa Burki Oct 31, 2004

What has been the role of the media in gender portrayal, particularly, the emergence of the woman as an equal in society?

Dec 31, 1969

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