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Travels on Troubled Terrain: Israel & Palestine in 1993
Sun Apr 29, 2012 12:16 AM EDT
This travelogue was written by me in 1993 when I was an undergraduate student at Tufts University. It is about my journey to Israel and Palestine two months before the “historic handshake” between Arafat and Rabin. It attempts to provide a backdrop to the peac …
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Latest Wikileaks "revealations" about Pakistan's Blame Culture
Fri Mar 16, 2012 3:51 AM EDT
Among many revelations of the most recent Wikileaks release from the intelligence firm Stratfor, was a cache of emails between Kamran Bokhari, the Vice President for South Asia for Stratfor and his American colleague Fred Burton regarding the killing of Pakistani journalist Syed …
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Are we wrong about Pakistan? - Telegraph
Seeded on Wed Feb 29, 2012 12:08 AM EST (Telegraph)
An British writer finds beauty, joy and courage in a country that many dismiss far too easily
Toning down "Toxic Sugar" rhetoric
Fri Feb 24, 2012 2:56 PM EST
This is the full unedited version of my letter published in Nature (February 23, 2012) in response to Lustig et al (Nature 482, 27–29; 2012) Regulating products based on a scientifically-based risk analysis is a worthy goal.
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Benazir Bhutto, Islam and Modernity
Sun Dec 25, 2011 11:25 PM EST
Four years have passed since the tragic assassination of Benazir Bhutto. Let's revisit an article I wrote for Pakistan's Daily Times soon after her passing on her unusual relationship between Islam and modernity.
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Shia-Sunni Reconciliation and Rituals
Fri Dec 9, 2011 7:41 AM EST
This article created a firestorm of anger when it was published by the Express Tribune (ET) in Pakistan who ended up removing it from their web site. It was a test of free speech in Pakistan and it is clear that the country is still stuck in a time warp of religious hypersens …
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Profiles of Pakistani Diaspora Politically Active Abroad
Sun Nov 20, 2011 8:15 PM EST
The Pakistani diaspora worldwide has become increasingly involved in political activities in their adopted countries of residence. Yet, there is no single place to go to find out about these individuals.
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The Philanthropy Game
Wed Nov 9, 2011 11:38 PM EST
If there is any core lesson from the Occupy Wall Street movement, it is that gross inequality cannot be ignored indefinitely. Nobel laureate economists such as Amartya Sen have warned us of this reality for decades.
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Pakistan and India at the United Nations
Tue Nov 8, 2011 11:46 PM EST
The last few weeks have been a momentous time at the United Nations in so many ways.
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The Greener Side of Herman Cain
Tue Oct 18, 2011 11:04 AM EDT
Herman Cain is unlikely to come across as an environmentalist by any stretch of the imagination.
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Belgrade Retrospective
Sat Oct 8, 2011 12:18 AM EDT
At the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers lies the great city of Belgrade which has been center-stage to arguably the most acrimonious conflict Europe has endured since World War 2.
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India and Pakistan Peace Process: Glimmers of Hope
Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:33 AM EDT
Last week, I was in Lahore, Pakistan at a forum on environmental peace-building in South Asia. Organized by a group of “Young Global Leaders” under the auspices of the World Economic Forum, this was a unique gathering of professionals and politicians.
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Response to "Pakistan's Middle-Class Extremists"
Fri Jul 15, 2011 9:03 AM EDT
The following is an email response I made to the authors of an oped written by a group of researchers in Foreign Affairs. My concern is that headline-grabbing opeds based on larger more complex studies can be misleading and often serve little useful policy purpose.
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Muslims and Science
Tue Jun 28, 2011 1:00 AM EDT
Talk to most Pakistani scientists and they will repeat what Muslim scientists all over the world like to revel in: “we were the best in science during the Golden age of Iberian Islam.
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Valuing Life: From Healthcare to the Politics of War
Wed May 25, 2011 1:00 AM EDT
Casual conversations these days at social events seem to revolve around two key topics - health and war.
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Pakistan and America - No Divorce Option after Osama Raid
Tue May 3, 2011 3:50 PM EDT
Sunday night, May 1: We had just put our kids to sleep and I was about to turn off the TV and yawn my way to bed.
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Water Wars in Africa
Seeded on Sun May 1, 2011 8:38 PM EDT (Yale E360)
As water becomes scarce and population pressures rise, the once remote chance of armed conflict over water is becoming increasingly real in Africa.
Three Cups of Bitter Tea
Mon Apr 18, 2011 7:03 PM EDT
As a Pakistani-American, I try to follow the work of American philanthropists on the ground whenever I am back in the region. In recent years, I have tried to follow some of the work of mountaineer Greg Mortenson, whose book, Three Cups of Tea, has become a media sensation.
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Climate Change and the Himalyan Flood
Seeded on Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:27 AM EDT (Express Tribune)
The flooding which displaced an unprecedented 20 million people in Pakistan in 2010 is increasingly being blamed on climate change
Islamic Extremism in America
Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:13 AM EDT
New York Republican Congressmen Peter King has evoked strong responses across the political spectrum regarding the hearings which he is holding on the questionable rise of Islamic extremism in America. As a Muslim -American, I remain ambivalent about these hearings.
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Healthcare Hysteria
Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:21 PM EST
As the debate over health care resumes in Washington, and Vermont considers prospects for a single-payer health care system, it is worth humanizing the narrative beyond hysterical statements by politicians that healthcare reform compromises liberty.
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Tunisian-American Perpsective on Jasmine Revolution
Sun Jan 30, 2011 10:37 AM EST
Following the tumultuous events in Tunisia in January, I spoke to a distinguished Tunisian-American scholar, Dr. Mokhtar Sadok about his perspectives on current events. Dr. Sadok was in Tunis at the time of the Jasmine Revolution.
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Humble Aid
Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:02 AM EST
Foreign aid has become an essential element of attempts to equalize obscene levels of global inequality.
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Synthetic Versus Mined Diamonds
Seeded on Tue Jan 25, 2011 7:33 PM EST (University of Vermont)
The energy usage and emissions in mined versus lab-created diamonds was evaluated, based on industrial data, since these two factors are often a general indicator of environmental impact that can be useful in product comparisons.
Factory Farms, The Story of Electronics & Our Pursuit of Treasure
Seeded on Sat Jan 1, 2011 11:55 AM EST (Earthbeat Radio)
Radio program on debating the pros and cons of consumerism with a new video on "The Story of Electronics" and discussion with the author of "Treasures of the Earth."
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Travels on Troubled Terrain: Israel & Palestine in 1993
This travelogue was written by me in 1993 when I was an undergraduate student at Tufts University. It is about my journey to Israel and Palestine two months before the “historic handshake” between Arafat and Rabin. It attempts to provide a backdrop to the peac …
Latest Wikileaks "revealations" about Pakistan's Blame Culture
Among many revelations of the most recent Wikileaks release from the intelligence firm Stratfor, was a cache of emails between Kamran Bokhari, the Vice President for South Asia for Stratfor and his American colleague Fred Burton regarding the killing of Pakistani journalist Syed …
Are we wrong about Pakistan? - TelegraphAn British writer finds beauty, joy and courage in a country that many dismiss far too easily
Toning down "Toxic Sugar" rhetoric
This is the full unedited version of my letter published in Nature (February 23, 2012) in response to Lustig et al (Nature 482, 27–29; 2012) Regulating products based on a scientifically-based risk analysis is a worthy goal.
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