Journeys to Democracy

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• Remembering Doc: The importance of civil discourse and the art of listening

    
  13 June, by beenasarwar
  At a small gathering last year, our friend S. Ali Jafari read his essay in Urdu about my father, whom he called “Doc”. His son Salman videotaped the reading, which forms the basis of this 14-minute video I edited for 26 May 2019, ten years after Dr M. Sarwar passed away peacefully at home in (...)

• #MeToo: Moving towards a cycle of healing

     
  8 May, by beenasarwar
  Something I wrote about sexual harassment and abuse, published inThe News on Sunday. It was a difficult piece to write, took a lot of thought, time, and research, and forced me to introspect on uncomfortable ideas. I went through a learning process that I’ve have tried to share. One idea links (...)

• South Asian activists, academics, journalists urge Sri Lanka not to violate fundamental rights in the name of combating terror

   
  5 May, by beenasarwar
  Thanks to friends who initiated this statement in solidarity with the artists, thinkers and people of Sri Lanka, that I have signed along with over 250 other activists, academics and journalists from across South Asia. Please feel free to endorse and share. Signatories include human rights (...)

• World Press Freedom Day: India/Pakistan media and prospects of peace

            
  3 May, by beenasarwar
  My comment about the polarized media in India and Pakistan and the prospects of peace, incorporated in the International Federation of Journalists‘ Truth vs Misinformation: South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-19 released on World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2019. Also published in Naya Daur Beena (...)

• Press Freedom: Challenges to journalism go beyond violence and commercial threats

      
  2 May, by beenasarwar
  After I attended a media conference in Poland in June last year where I also presented a paper on digital and traditional media, an old friend and colleague from Lahore asked me to write a short report about it for his media outlet Dispatch News Desk. Shared below, belatedly, on the occasion of (...)

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