Beenish Ahmed
What Parents Are Teaching Their Kids About Terrorism
Amid a deluge of terrorist attacks abroad and mass shootings at home, American parents are doing what they can to keep their kids safe without inciting panic.
Bloody Hell: Does Religion Punish Women for Menstruating?
Exploring the faith-based limitations placed on menstruating women in nearly every major religion—from Islam to Judaism to Christianity to Hinduism.
What the Freddie Gray Protests Have in Common with the Riots of the 60s
Then, as now, people came together in anger over how the police, and society at large, were treating young black people.
Pakistani Acid Burn Victims Are Starting Over in Beauty Salons
Brutal attacks go unpunished in an overloaded, corrupt legal system.
Twisted Conflict Spectatorship in Israel and Palestine
The latest assault on Gaza is generating some uncomfortable applause.
Pakistan's Transgender Community Is Hiding Out in a Hostile City
As Peshawar has come under increasing sway of an extremist view of Islam, its community of transgender hijras has been increasingly marginalised.