Ellaha Shaheen

Ellaha Shaheen

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Currently, Ellaha Shaheen is studying International Affairs with a concentration in socio-economic development at the New School on a Fulbright scholarship.

Her BA degree is from Kabul University in journalism. She has worked for two different organizations in Afghanistan. One is Global Rights, which focuses on issues of human rights violations, and the other is CIPE (center for international private enterprise) where she worked on the project AWBF (Afghan women business federation). Their focus was on how to build Afghan women's business skills and orient their small or big business towards an international market.

Ellaha lived with her family from 1992 to 2002 in Peshawar, Pakistan, the bordering city with Afghanistan as refugee. She then returned to Afghanistan at the beginning of 2002 till 2006, and then traveled to the U.S. to obtain a degree in international affairs.

Blog Entries by Ellaha Shaheen

False Identity of East in West

Posted January 16, 2008 | 11:29 AM (EST)

Burqa, Chadari, or full covering is becoming the Afghan woman's identity to the West. Afghan women have been introduced through western media as a very vulnerable, poor, and illiterate entity, so that whoever in western countries sees them, expresses sympathy.

But does anyone know in the west that the...

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An End to a Beginning

Posted December 29, 2007 | 12:58 PM (EST)

Pakistan was supposed to experience a new political period in coming January after the parliamentary election and participation of Benazir Bhutto, however before a period of change could ever take place, it comes to an end due to Benazir Bhutto's assassination.

Benazir Bhutto's ruling earned great popularity...

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