Greetings from sweltering Karachi (getting cooler as the monsoon winds move in). Wanted to share my column of this week. beena The News on Sunday, July 3, 2005...
From friend Joseph Gerson in Boston. Many of us have been thinking along the same lines but he has articulated it so well, as has the article below. beena ...
Two short responses to the London bombings - from the Women Living Under Muslim Laws website, and a comment by a Britisher based in Pakistan, published in The...
dear all, What could not be published in my article in The News on Sunday (TNS) Dialogue pages today, below, is that the men who questioned Amir Mir came to ...
Dear all, this is my last column for a bit; am going to be away from Pakistan as of mid-August for a 10-month journalism fellowship in the USA (Nieman, at...
From Hasan Zaidi in Karachi Powerful and, unfortunately, absolutely true... Watching the Gazan Fiasco The Shame of It All By Jennifer Loewenstein 08/18/05...
Hello everyone Greetings from Cambridge, MA where it is as hot and muggy these days as Karachi, PK. Here's an email from Waleed Ziad in Washington DC - a young...
Dear all, please see email below from Farjad Nabi, a freelance filmmaker friend in Lahore beena ... From: farjad nabi <beykhabar@...>, dear everyone, as...
dear all For immediate money transfers from the USA, UBL has a direct money transfer system that works like a credit card transfer - ubl.com.pk - click and...
Thanks to Sammy Khan for the following note and letter; TCF is an excellent organisation that I also trust; already providing quality education to hundreds of...
some of you may already have got this - if so, apologies. If not, pls read and do what you can. thanks beena Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:40:26 -0700 (PDT) From:...
Greetings all We know the urgency of the situation; almost 50,000 are known to be killed, a figure that is expected to rise to over 100,000; thousands injured...
Please see mail below re: Nov 8 worldwide vigils to mark one month since the earthquake hit. In the Boston/Cambridge area we're meeting at 6 pm at Harvard Sq. ...
dear all - a note from friends in Karachi followed by an update from Tasnim Jaffer of The Citizens Foundation (TCF) highlighting what's being done right -...
Dear all We've all been talking about the media's relative silence on the earthquake in Pakistan. Last week I wrote an op-ed that The News, published in its...
Dear all - a follow up to the email I just sent about the media and the quake. Pl see below two emails from Kashif Zafar at the saquake.org alliance. beena 1)...
Dear all, re: petitioning Oprah - the link I sent no longer seems to work. But the idea of lobbying her to do a show on the quake is still a good one - she can...
Friends, see below: Some media updates, followed by update from Asif Alam re: World Bank quake report, Operation Heartbeat (volunteers needed), tsunami & quake...
All please see below info about a gear drop drive, and a media awareness initiative. Plus links to some recent articles about the need for the world to donate...
Thanks to Nafees Shah, Andy McCord, & Asif Alam for the following articles & news report; see also the Pakistan Press Foundation media assessment report of the...
See note from Rafique Kathwari, and the story below, from Dawn (thanks Sree). beena From: Rafique Kathwari <rafique@...> Sree: Heartbreaking. Imperative...
Dear all Dr Quratulain Bakhteari of IDSP (www.idsp.org) is in the US till the end of Dec on a private family visit; she would like to share her first hand ...
Interest in the earthquake and its aftermath was never particularly strong in the West to begin with but what little interest there was seems to have died out...
Dear all 1. Over two months after the quake hit, a woman was found alive from the rubble of her family home; inspiring story (link below). 2. Link to an...
Dear all This is an account by Zeba Vanek, one of a 3-member team (two neurologists and a public health specialist) in Pakistan from the USA for earthquake...
Dear friends Firstly, apologies for two emails sent apparently with jpeg attachments, apparently generated by a computer virus. Fortunately this list does not ...
Received this from Shivam Vij. Good idea. beena Announcing a new team blog: How the Other Half Lives. www.theotherindia.org In 1890, Jacob Riis, a Dutch...
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