FatimaThe Hong Kong protests reveal how we misuse ‘violence’, emboldening oppressive regimes like China…Hong Kong was voting last weekend, where a record turnout of people were out in the millions to elect district-level representatives to…Nov 24, 2019Nov 24, 2019
Fatimapolice br*talityThe city is melting in the screams In the dead of night, From thick skins to thin skins, So accustomed to fearful, bloodied scenesNov 14, 2019Nov 14, 2019
FatimaKashmir is a political playground for India.I’m a journalist. But never in my life have I read such remorseless bigotry written by a veteran journalist around the clock about a deeply…Aug 6, 2019Aug 6, 2019
FatimaWhat will it take for Malaysia to act on its human rights vows and quit treating refugees as…These past few weeks in Malaysia as a foreign journalist opened my eyes to a novel set of dismaying challenges facing the refugee and…Jul 24, 20191Jul 24, 20191
FatimaChina may be overstepping Hong Kong’s rule of law and there’s historical proof of thatFirst of all, I’m no stranger to a city that has its fair share of prejudices in how they’ve been treating minority groups living on the…Jun 14, 2019Jun 14, 2019
FatimaDouble standards of terrorism are alive and thriving in fields of IslamophobiaIn these past few months, national security agencies and protection forces were gritting their teeth at the cries of women asking to…Mar 29, 2019Mar 29, 2019
FatimaLifting the iron curtain on the facts of the humanitarian crisis in YemenAs you’re reading this essay, some 14 million Yemenis continue to be systematically deprived of food, sanitation and medical supplies…Feb 9, 2019Feb 9, 2019
FatimaWhat happens when news on Kashmir is reigned in by, you guessed it, Google?In one of my politics and law courses at the University of Hong Kong in the winter semester of 2018, we came across a case study of one…Jan 26, 20191Jan 26, 20191
FatimaHagiographizing the late 41st US President George H. W. Bush in the Philippines is a bad signHeaping praises to the late George H. W. Bush were slung back to the mainstream news cycle not too long ago, but this time pro-US…Jan 15, 2019Jan 15, 2019
FatimaAre you even “woke” if you turn a blind eye to the news on peaceful protests in Sudan circulating…In the last few weeks of 2018, Twitter feeds and mainstream media sites were lit aflame with headlines that went along the lines of “Mass…Jan 9, 2019Jan 9, 2019