Lone wolves and home-grown terrorists:
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on September 16, 2011 · Leave a Comment
As the United States commemorated the 10 th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, terrorism experts stepped up warnings that authorities must look beyond the usual sources of terror, to the lone wolves stirring with anger and seeking out big-impact weapons. Isolated and underestimated, lone wolves might go unnoticed even as they try to get chemical, … Read more
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Famine, From Bad to Worse
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 30, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar As the famine in southern Somalia worsens, aid experts fear that corruption and the politics of terrorism are crimping the flow of humanitarian relief to areas where starvation is worst. Abundant U.S. aid targeted for the Horn of Africa cannot directly reach starving people in southern Somalia because it’s blocked by … Read more
Embracing the American mainstream
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on August 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Malik Siraj Akbar On one bright sunny day a school trip to Newseum— a museum in Washington DC which is exclusively devoted to media and journalism— changed Noorulain Khawaja’s life. Inspired by gallant stories and heroic images of war correspondents, the little Pakistani-American girl decided to become a journalist. She wanted to tell fascinating … Read more
Reporting from the Danger Zone: An Interview with Pakistani Journalist Malik Siraj Akbar
Posted by Malik Siraj Akbar on June 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment
By Torie Rose DeGhett Pakistan has recently become a subject of some attention as one of the deadliest places for journalism, brought into the global eye to a small degree by the death of Asia Times Online journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad at the end of May. In Pakistan, rife with censorship and threat, journalists lose their … Read more
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