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rose to power in the Swat Valley around the time Malala was 10, they banned women from employment and education and sentenced those who opposed them to death (Fazl-e-Haider, 2013). At the age of 11, Malala Yousafzai began anonymously blogging on the Urdu language version of the BBC website, openly discussing her experiences, thoughts,…

Islam has played an important role in the creation and continued survival of Pakistan as a sovereign state. As Pakistan started off, the use of the two-nation theory and a united Muslim front was a useful identity to an otherwise splintered nation, too similar to it’s much larger Hindu counterpart. As Pakistan grew from a theory into an actualized nation, it was proved that this wasn’t a solid foundation for a country as Bangladesh won independence, disregarding Muslim unity in exchange for…

As a young girl growing up in Pakistan she always had a passion for learning, and began speaking out for the need for education at a young age. In Particular, she spoke about the right for women’s education. She started by writing a blog for the BBC Urdu service detailing her fear that rising tension in Pakistan would force her to leave school and how many girls were left without a means of education (The Malala np). As her words and messages traveled further, there grew a rising and violent…

When I was younger, I never quite understood people who didn’t like to travel. Why stay home when you could be elsewhere? Of course now, I get that there are a lot of different impediments that come with every trip: long plane rides, communicating in foreign languages, annoying people. But if you can get past all that, it’s worth it. Travel is finding beauty in places that are not always luxurious. It is finding a home in communities that are not home. It is tasting foods that feel different in…

The partition of India is the most painful and traumatic episode of Indian history. Partition in general was accompanied by a huge wave of violence, but the atrocities against women were probably the most horrible ones. Though women were neither the part of the political decisions that divided the nation nor they had any role in the violence that followed partition, yet they were the worst targets of brutality inflicted by the men of other communities. The impact of the partition on women was…

my coworker Harris Siddiqui, who is 30 years old. He is a Pakistan Muslim American who was born in New York City. He visits him Pakistan country and has Dual citizenship to his heritage country. He speaks two fluent languages, which are English and Urdu. He is a religious Islamic male, who feels that he has a Hybrid blend culture. He was born August 17, 1986 in Queens, New York; where he lives all his life. He attended two Elementary school named Eastern Elmhurst Queens until the 5th grade…

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” by Charlemagne, by being able to speak another language it shows respect and determination to those who originated with that language as their first. As for today there is a wide variety of different languages that are officially recognized, extinct, or unofficial languages, since there are vast amount of different languages, there 's a few that have adopted some of each other’s culture, by having different or similar alphabet or writing…

Malik and she was born in Karachi, Pakistan. Amber immigrated to the United States when she was three years old. Amber’s parents came to the United States in search of better opportunities for their children. Amber did not speak a word of English she Urdu and Hindi. In my case, my parents immigrated to the United States in the late 70’s from El Salvador. I was born in Los Angeles and raised in Whittier. My primary language was English but I did live in a bilingual household were we spoke both…

Mercy Mercy Is the only word my lips open to speak? Truth, Is the only word that haunts me! Your hallucinations every time and everywhere are seen by me. Your shrilling cries, give me sleepless nights In this tiny prison cell, I shudder at the thought of that night. The night on which I committed a bloody sin I killed you. In spite of your mother not letting me to I want mercy! O’ God hear my plea O’ my child, What if you were a girl? I should have loved you, kissed and cherished you. But I…

Islam is a religious faith preached by the Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh). After the Prophet Mohammed's (Pbuh) death, Islam spread exponentially from its place of origin in the Arabian Gulf. The followers of the Prophet Mohammed (Pbuh), who are called Muslims, conquered the whole of the Middle East, as well as central Asia, Spain, North Africa and north and central India. Most of the conquered areas and countries accepted the Islamic religion. Islam is more than just a religion; it is a way of living,…