Articles by Fiza Asar
I studied International Relations from California and have been working for three years now. I worked for two years in Pakistan in the non-profit sector in the field of Marketing/Communications and hence have a strong affinity with the use of social media for social good. Since early 2009 after moving to London, I have been working with a women's organization WILPF (www.ukwilpf.org.uk) on campaign development and social media marketing, while also assisting/handling the communications and internet marketing of an NGO called thedreamfly (www.thedreamfly.org) and a company called Nature's Basin (www.naturesbasin.com). During the last three years, I have been trying to keep myself active in the world of citizen journalism and blogging. I am currently a full-time Masters student at SOAS studying Global Media and Post-National Communication and extremely interested in the role of media, imagery and politics and the social media revolution!
As I sit here breathless in London, flicking channels between Al Jazeera English, BBC, CNN and France 24, in anxiety and excitement to see what Hosni Mubarak will announce within the hour, I look back …
Any form of speech used for pulling communities together to criticize a government or ruling group’s action has historically met with tightening of laws, suppression of freedom and unjust actions at the hands …
Now that I have your attention with the title of this post, the real story behind this post is to discuss whether campaigns like “Draw Muhammad Day” are really more attempts at increasing the divides …
Last Thursday, on March 11 2010, SOAS held the London Premiere of the film “Addicted in Afghanistan.” Khalili Lecture Theatre was packed at 6:00 pm from people who had been queing up since 5:15 pm …
The article below originally appeared on Chowraha – Crossroads
A piece on today’s Metro, a newspaper read by at least 2 million people in the UK everyday, caught my instant attention. At first I found it …
Fair & Lovely is a product extremely well-known and easily available in many non-white countries of the world. What is being sold here in physical terms and in ideology? Why is buying such a product problematic and what can we learn about societies through this?
