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Tag: Pakistan
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Car bombing in Pakistan nearly took her father’s life — and changed hers
Mashail Malik was always interested in the human experience. At first it took her to literature, philosophy but now her focus is ethnic, identity politics.
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‘I’ve never done work that I was not interested in. That is a very good reason to go on.’
Indian economist and philosopher, Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics, talks about his life as the son of distinguished Hindu academics and how the inequities all around him in colonial India of the 1930s would shape his intellectual destiny.
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A lifeline to India’s farmers on the edge of despair
Harvard Kennedy School student’s nonprofit to help poor farmers in India wins Mittal South Asia Institute innovation prize.
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Getting to the why of British India’s bloody Partition
Harvard’s South Asia Institute is examining the history and ramifications of the violent Partition of British India in 1947 into what would eventually become India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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The fading of polio
Faculty and student panel examines efforts to make polio the second human disease to be eradicated during the “Every Last Child” event at Radcliffe.
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The bright side of Pakistan
A January conference in Pakistan on urbanization was the first of five in the region and a result of Harvard’s South Asia Institute’s growing work there.
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The beep ball player
Aqil Sajjad is blind, but he loves sports. So he’s playing on beep ball, a sport that features a chirping baseball that is delivered by a sighted pitcher to a blindfolded batter.
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A strong, new voice
On Oct. 9, 2012, Taliban gunmen shot 15-year-old Malaa Yousafzai in the head as she rode home from school on a bus. She was simply trying education. On Sept. 27, Yousafzai was in Cambridge to receive the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian of the Year Award.
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Malala Yousafzai is Harvard Humanitarian of the year
Malala Yousafzai, the 16 year-old Pakistani girl who was shot on Oct. 9, 2012, in an assassination attempt for expressing her philosophy of gender equality in education and who famously said, “I want every girl, every child, to be educated,” will receive the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award.
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The path to fighting injustice
Lillian Langford, graduating with degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, plans to use her experience working in international law and human rights and her experience at Harvard to continue fighting injustice.
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SAI offers ‘feet on the street’ experience
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Institute has continued the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia.
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Bridging the gap, digitally
A new project at Harvard’s Pakistan Innovation Network brings professors and their research to students, activists, and entrepreneurs across South Asia via video conferencing, making possible connections that could spark social change.
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Next step for South Asia Initiative
In response to the South Asia Initiative’s demonstrated commitment to the advancement of South Asian studies and programs, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost at Harvard have formally renamed it the South Asia Institute at Harvard University.
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SAI offers grants for research, language study
Since its inception in 2003, the South Asia Initiative continues the long tradition of collaboration between Harvard and South Asia. Learning from South Asia and contributing to its development have become vital given the salience of the region in contemporary times.
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Less bluster, more action
America’s tenuous relationship with Pakistan has faced one test after another in the past year. To rebuild trust and form a true partnership, both sides have to accept blame, said Cameron Munter, the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, at Harvard Kennedy School on Feb. 13.
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Harvard’s ties to India
Over the past several years, Harvard University has been ramping up its involvement in India and South Asia, a trend catalyzed by Harvard’s South Asia Initiative, which was founded in 2003 to foster the University’s engagement in the region. Harvard’s understanding of the region’s importance is highlighted by President Drew Faust’s January visit to India.
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India, front and center
Harvard is increasing its engagement in India and surrounding South Asian nations in an effort to better understand a part of the world that is growing in global importance. Harvard President Drew Faust visits India this month.
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Women as peacemakers
Activists from across Africa and the Middle East drew from on-the-ground experience in a discussion of women’s role in peace efforts at John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum.
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A humanitarian comes home
Harvard Medical School Instructor Stephanie Kayden’s educational life came full circle this semester, when she taught a humanitarian studies course in Emerson Hall, where, as an undergraduate philosophy concentrator she honed her own reasoning skills years ago.
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Voices of frustration
In an afternoon discussion at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, investigative journalists from around the world discussed the challenges of reaching a wider audience.
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Focus on Pakistan
What did Pakistani officials know about the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and when did they know it? Were they complicit — or dumb? Or smart at playing dumb? Those questions were analyzed by a panel of foreign policy experts on Wednesday (May 4) at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Tough love between U.S., Pakistan
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi of Pakistan sketched a blueprint for strengthening U.S.-Pakistan ties during a talk at the Kennedy School on Oct. 18.
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No shortcuts in Pakistan
Harvard experts from a variety of fields discussed the Pakistan flooding disaster, saying that poverty blocks preparedness and an enduring commitment is needed to help the nation recover.
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In Pakistan, controlling water is key
Pakistan’s long-term water security requires institutional renewal and new infrastructure, including new dams, on the Indus River.
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Horror, by custom
Radcliffe Fellow looks at the painful ‘facts and realities’ facing women in Pakistan.
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‘Jazz’ diplomacy
Richard Holbrooke, a diplomat for nearly 50 years, imparts to a Harvard audience his insights into current international conflicts, particularly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Kashmir.
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In the clutches of the Taliban
New York Times reporter David Rohde discusses the seven months he was held captive by the Taliban on Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan.
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Islam’s mystical dimensions take flight
A new exhibition at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology explores the mystical dimensions of Islam with a series of photographs and multilayered, mixed-media compositions.
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Nunn wants to eliminate nukes
Sam Nunn, former Democratic senator from Georgia (1973-97), is well known as an eminence in the realm of U.S. security policy.
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Ethicists, philosophers discuss selling of human organs
In nearly every country in the world, there is a shortage of kidneys for transplantation. In the United States, around 73,000 people are on waiting lists to receive a kidney. Yet 4,000 die every year before the lifesaving organ is available.