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Sonya Rehman
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A Pakistani writer/journalist based in the city of Lahore.

A graduate from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, Sonya's work has appeared in: BBC [The Strand], TIME, The Wall Street Journal [Scene Asia], Rolling Stone [Middle East & India], The Hindu, The Friday Times, DAWN, and The News International, among others.

She can be contacted at: sonjarehman@gmail.com.

Blog Entries by Sonya Rehman

Mob Psychology and the Sialkot Lynching Case

Posted August 13, 2010 | 13:24:10 (EST)

Last week, in the midst of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting, two brothers, Mughees and Muneeb were lynched by a mob in Sialkot - a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

The young men were mistaken for robbers and murdered in broad daylight.

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Bollywood movie caricaturing Osama Bin Laden banned in Pakistan

Posted July 24, 2010 | 07:20:00 (EST)

Released this month, the Bollywood movie, 'Tere Bin Laden' (Without You, Laden), has been banned in Pakistan because it caricatures Osama Bin Laden.

Starring Ali Zafar, a pop star from Pakistan, the movie depicts Zafar as a struggling Pakistani journalist who fabricates an interview with a man who shares an...

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France vs. Burqa: Sarkozy Seeks Full Ban on Burqas

Posted April 26, 2010 | 13:52:28 (EST)

Home to an estimated six million Muslims, the controversial burqa debate in France has been growing over the past five years. This year, a partial ban to be approved by the Parliament was proposed by French lawmakers.

But on the 21st of April, after the Cabinet meeting, President Nicholas Sarkozy...

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