Journalist, filmmaker #democracy #humanrights #media #gender #peace #Nieman #Chevening #ADHDadvocate @southasiapeace, Editor @sapannews @amankiasha_1
Cambridge, MA
Joined March 2009
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Sorry @elonmusk / X / Twitter.
I don't want to pay to get a verified blue mark.
The old @twitter gave me a verified blue, which I felt I had earned.
I don't remember when it disappeared.
Now anyone can pay to get #verified - and get you more earnings.
ALT @beenasarwar Twitter profile - screenshot from 2021
beena sarwar retweeted
Day 1862: 🏫 Girls barred from secondary schools.
Day 1402: 🎓 Women barred from universities.
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History will not only judge the Taliban for denying girls their rights. It will also judge those governments and institutions that had the power to act but chose silence, convenience and diplomatic comfort.
#RecogniseGenderApartheid
#ACrimeAgainstHumanity
#LetAfghanGirlsLearn
beena sarwar retweeted
Thank you, dear @beenasarwar , for this beautiful and inspiring piece, and for your generous words about Let Her Fly.
From classrooms to gymnastics to the skies, Pakistan’s girls are proving that talent has no gender. Our duty is not to clip their wings, but to let them fly.
#LetHerFly
beenasarwar.substack.com/p/f…
My latest post: #Personalpolitical
Flying girls of #Pakistan
Three stories — #LetHerFly, #gymnasts from #MacharColony #Karachi, and how a little girl’s question helped change #PAF’s gender balance
beenasarwar.substack.com/fly…
#JourneysToDemocracy beenasarwar.com
Heard a fascinating audio documentary by @Radiolab on "The Buried Bodies Case" (Lake Pleasant bodies case),
Legal ethics dilemma.
Deftly produced, suspenseful, featuring several voices.
#buriedbodiescase #Syracuse #LegalEthics #FrankArmani
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Syracuse 1973, defense attorneys Frank Armani, Francis Belge were court-appointed to defend self-confessed murderer and rapist Robert Garrow.
Details: tinyurl.com/Law-ethics-arman…
#buriedbodiescase #Syracuse #LegalEthics #FrankArmani
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beena sarwar retweeted
A story republished in #MediaMirror @SapanNews #GlobalSouthasia #India #Pakistan #mediaban
@afiasalam @thenews_intl #October #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
Republished from The News Pakistan, Saadia Ubaid Khan shares the stories of three women journalists who survived breast cancer and turned their experiences into advocacy for awareness and early detection.
Read the article: sapannews.com/2026/10/22/thr…
beena sarwar retweeted
Thank you Claire for revisiting this podcast 🙏
This podcast is a great listen from the incredible @bbclysedoucet . We hear many voices from ambassadors to Taliban, but for me it was the 2 young composers talking about their wish to play music that got to me!
beena sarwar retweeted
@ShyamMeeraSingh describes how police beat & detained him, but goons with sticks walk free
Legacy media abandoned completely its role to report fairly & question power
It's people like @ShyamMeeraSingh & @Saurabh_Unmute who do this at great personal cost
youtube.com/watch?v=Ygl981Lb…
beena sarwar retweeted
I challenge you to watch this and not weep for what we have lost as a nation in the past 12 years, and the fact that there is still hope. #India #Brazil #LulaPresidente
beena sarwar retweeted
“The powerful can kill one, two, or even one hundred roses. But they will never stop the arrival of spring.”
What a guy. What a guy. What a guy.
beena sarwar retweeted
Thank you all for your response on my latest book, Media Under The Shadow of Death. I have dedicated this book to the martyrs of journalism from Munir Sangi to Arshad Sharif, from Wali Khan Babar to Jan Mohd Mehr, from Chishti Mujahid to Hyatullah and many more. Salute to all.
Great @southasiapeace discussion on Nepal tragedy ahead of the COP 31 on YouTube with @kundadixit @afiasalam @prateeish Dr Faisal Mueen Qamar @icimod
Need likes and shares, engagement
youtube.com/live/kHL77pwu5V0
A story republished in #MediaMirror @SapanNews #GlobalSouthasia #India #Pakistan #mediaban
@afiasalam @thenews_intl #October #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
Republished from The News Pakistan, Saadia Ubaid Khan shares the stories of three women journalists who survived breast cancer and turned their experiences into advocacy for awareness and early detection.
Read the article: sapannews.com/2026/10/22/thr…
beena sarwar retweeted
Republished from The News Pakistan, Saadia Ubaid Khan shares the stories of three women journalists who survived breast cancer and turned their experiences into advocacy for awareness and early detection.
Read the article: sapannews.com/2026/10/22/thr…
What a delight to meet acclaimed writer and all round wonderful person Shobhaa De, talking to me here about @SouthasiaPeace at the #SouthAsia #Literature & #Arts fest #SALA2026 #BayArea youtube.com/shorts/Mz7UO_Fud…
Chilling video footage - salute and hats off to the brave woman who filmed it, constantly telling the ICE agents that what they were doing is wrong, not supposed to put their hands in his pockets, look what they did to his car.
One has his face completely covered
ICE agents in Rhode Island attempted to arrest a father while he was holding both his young children in his arms, according to a video of the incident and interview with the family. trib.al/gg8gVDA
beena sarwar retweeted
More than two months ago, an ICE agent shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian immigrant in Maine. “I want justice to be carried out,” his partner, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez, told me in her first newspaper interview for @BostonGlobe
bostonglobe.com/2026/09/24/m…
