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When President Obama uttered the words “women’s rights” during his speech at Cairo University last week, my ears perked up. The fact that a US president is putting women’s rights up there on the international agenda — on par with peace in the Middle East, no less — is indeed historic. That he has the guts to say to a room full of Egyptian men that women’s rights in the Muslim world are a topic that needs addressing, was quite a thrill. The fact that there was some applause after he made that opening statement, “the sixth issue that I want to  Read more >

The death of a former prostitute does not often merit public attention. But then again, Norma Hotaling, who died this week at the age of 57 from pancreatic cancer, was no ordinary former prostitute. After twenty years of suffering in the sex trade industry, she not only found the remarkable courage and strength to pull herself out of devastating cycles of addiction, abuse and self-loathing, but she also  Read more >