Tag: Muna Khan

WHEN I moved to Hanoi in 2008 to work at a newspaper as a copy editor, my toughest challenge was readjusting my meal timings. Our shifts began at 2pm, ended … Read More

MY nephew, now 9, and I have been watching one of the 11 Star Wars films for the last three years whenever we are together. He didn’t think anything of … Read More

NOT all heroes wear capes, goes the popular catchphrase. In Pakistan, they play the role of judge, jury and executioner. I am speaking about the men who should be villainised … Read More

WHILE I dont tire of writing about journalism, recently, I have been wondering whether I will witness its demise and if there will be takers for my news media literacy … Read More

I DONT know how old I was, or where I was, when I read Are You There God? Its Me Margaret by Judy Blume but I do remember feeling understood. … Read More

ABOUT a fortnight before the US presidential elections in 2016, I attended a talk at a university in Chicago featuring New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and former Obama adviser … Read More

WHEN I was employed at this newspaper and working on these pages in the mid-2000s, a colleague and I would call each other following a violent incident in the city … Read More

I CONSIDER myself open-minded but I remember being taken aback when a new friend showed up at a caf in Chicago, where I was a graduate student, wearing a This … Read More

I SPENT a year in a refugee camp yet somehow I ended up here on Hollywoods biggest stage, said an emotional Ke Quy Huan as he accepted his Oscar for … Read More

IN my first week of media ethics class at graduate school in 2016, Prof Charles Whitaker dove into the issue of how journalists should use social media. Could our opinions … Read More