Visually impaired Pakistani student wins scholarship to Oxford University
Khansa said, I do have a disability, I am blind, and I first-hand experienced the impacts of not having an inclusive society.
By Sakina Fatima| Published: 8th April 2021 7:07 pm IST 22-year-old visually impaired Pakistani girl, Khansa Maria
She is planning to pursue a master’s degree in evidence-based policy intervention and social evaluation.
Born blind, Khansa Maria wants to use her abilities and experience in a way that benefits others.
Khansa said, “I do have a disability, I am blind, and I first-hand experienced the impacts of not having an inclusive society.”
Presidential Elections in Iran
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Cambridge University Press
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2021
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9781108993432
Presidential Elections in Iran
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The dominant narrative of Iranian society and politics heralds the reformist movement as the epitome of Iran s transition to secularity, while conservative political forces are positioned as advocates of Islamization and a bulwark against secularization. Examining all the presidential elections since the revolution, Mahmoud Pargoo and Shahram Akbarzadeh argue that in contrast, political and cultural imagination and expectations in Iran have actually secularized regardless of the reformist/conservative divide. Exploring the evolution of campaign discourses from the 1980s elections which brought Abolhassan Banisadr, Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Ali Khamenei to power, to the more recent campaigns of Mohamad Khatami, Mahmoud Ahmadi
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As the famous quote commonly attributed to US writer Mark Twain goes: “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.”
It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that while the case for the 2003 Iraq war has been largely discredited, an unnerving amount of propaganda spread by the US and UK governments at the time still has some purchase today.
For example, Gerd Nonneman, Professor of International Relations and Gulf Studies at Georgetown University Qatar, recently tweeted about Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD): “Saddam’s aim was to keep everyone at home & abroad guessing.” Similarly, a November Financial Times review by Chief Political Correspondent Philip Stephens of two books on UK intelligence matters noted the then Iraqi leader “believed his domestic authority in Iraq rested on a pretence that he still had WMD.”
Karl Widerquist has written 994 articles.
Karl Widerquist is a Professor of political philosophy at Georgetown University-Qatar, specializing in distributive justice the ethics of who has what. Much of his work involves Universal Basic Income (UBI). He is a co-founder of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network (USBIG). He served as co-chair of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) for 7 years, and a member of the BIEN EC for 14 years. He was the Editor of the USBIG NewsFlash for 15 years and of the BIEN NewsFlash for 4 years. He is a cofounder of BIEN’s news website, Basic Income News. He is a cofounder and editor of the journal Basic Income Studies, the only academic journal devoted to research on UBI.