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Thou spoke with a man’s tongue, mananiya Prime Minister!

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 13, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed Honouring Begum Rokeya, the prime minister Sheikh Hasina at Begum Rokeya Padak 2010 programme, Osmani Memorial Auditorium, Dhaka, December 9 2010. Photo: Yasin Kabir joy/focusbangla. crop: Mir Ashfaquzzaman Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, currently the … Continue reading →

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Begum Rokeya is probably turning in her grave..

by Shahidul Alam Posted on December 10, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed Today, 9th December 2010, is Begum Rokeya Day We have come a long way since Begum Rokeya chaired the Bengal Women’s Education Conference in 1926, in Kolkata (Calcutta). She began by speaking in her … Continue reading →

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Great Female Artists? Think Karachi

by Shahidul Alam Posted on September 1, 2010

Subscribe to ShahidulNews Newsweek by Alexandra A. Seno ‘Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force’, Seher Shah. Seher Shah / Courtesy of artist and Bose Pacia, New York “Why have there been no great women artists?” asked American art historian … Continue reading →

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`Dismantling the master’s house’

by Shahidul Alam Posted on May 29, 2009

HC judgments on sexual harassment rahnuma ahmed The High Court’s verdict was a `revolution’ said Salma Ali, president of Bangladesh Jatiya Mahila Ainjibi Samity (BNWLA) In response to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) filed by the BNWLA, the High Court … Continue reading →

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CONVERSATIONS: BEING A WOMAN

by Shahidul Alam Posted on August 4, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews By Rahnuma Ahmed [the relationship between class struggle and women’s liberation is] very close. Women were the first to be oppressed, and will be the last to be liberated when class oppression ceases. So the test of … Continue reading →

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Of Roses and Sexual Harassment

by Shahidul Alam Posted on July 7, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews ] by rahnuma ahmed `You should not have written about such sensitive issues in such indecorous language,’ faculty members at Jahangirnagar University (JU) told me and my ex-colleague, Manosh Chowdhury. It was 1997, four years before I … Continue reading →

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Our Inheritances

by Shahidul Alam Posted on April 29, 2008

Subscribe to ShahidulNews rahnuma ahmed Different Islamic organizations stage a procession outside the National Mosque protesting against equal inheritance rights of women. Dhaka, Bangladesh. March 14 2008. © Munir uz Zaman/DrikNews ‘NO, I don’t care about the women’s development policy. … Continue reading →

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