The death toll of the April 24 collapse of a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, has passed 1,000 people, making it the worst industrial accident since the 1984 gas leak at a Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal. The Rana Plaza complex collapsed just one day after an engineer declared it unsafe. Britain’s […]
Posts in the world category:
#WorldGender Conversation: What is the Role of Men in the Fight for Women’s Safety?
Women’s outcries for safety became more audible in the aftermath of the gang rape and subsequent death of a young woman in Delhi last December. Increasingly, male voices are entering the discussion as well. Take Ali Shahidy, for example. He initially wrote an essay about becoming a feminist in Afghanistan under a pseudonym. As “Salim […]
#worldgender: Women’s Right to Safety
At Public Radio International and PRI’s The World, we’ve been covering women’s rights and protests since the rape and murder of a young woman in Delhi in December sparked large and prolonged protest. We don’t have the resources of a wire service or massive media organization, but we still wanted to give prominence to what […]
Reddit Users Debate the Pricing Game Of The Cancer Drug Industry
When the Indian pharmaceutical company Cipla announced last month that it would cut the cost of three drugs used to treat cancers – one used for lung cancer and two for breast cancer – people around the world responded. Some of the most lengthy conversations took place on the news commenting site Reddit, including a […]
The Big Map (on Pinterest)
This is a work in progress, but I’ve begun tagging blog posts based on what part of the world I’m writing about. (Sometimes I’ve written from these places, sometimes not.) [gmap marker_query=”numberposts=-1″]
Global and Underground
Here’s how classes work: Holakou Rahmanian turns on his computer early in the morning or late at night. He goes to a website whose address is known only to students, faculty and administrators of his university. Sometimes he’s in his pajamas when he logs in. Sometimes, he guesses, his professors are also in their pajamas. […]
Appearances
I have made many appearances at events, on podcasts and radio shows. Here are some highlights from past events: Mentor: Missing Voices Hackathon at West Virginia University Oct. 2018 Presented on revenue and stakeholders in the media and led student group to creating a beta calendar for inclusivity in newsrooms Editor/Mentor: NextGenRadio 2016, 2017, 2018 Editor […]
Haute Hijabis
Marwa Atik needs five pieces of trim, the kind embellished with pearls and black jewels. At a store in downtown L.A.’s Fashion District, boxes of trimmings line the walls from floor to ceiling, but Atik scans quickly and zeroes in on what she wants. At her direction, a clerk climbs a tall, wooden ladder and […]
THATCamp: How scholars can connect with broad audiences
I’m writing from my last day at THATCamp Prime at George Mason University. THAT stands for “The Humanities and Technology” — it’s really great unconference for digitally-interested scholars who are trying all sorts of great things to share, teach and engage people in their work. I came here looking for ideas for Asia Beat, both […]
Photography
See more of Angilee’s photography on Flickr.