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<title>Counterpoint &#45; Lubna Ferdowsi</title>
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<title>The Crisis of Coherent Foreign Policy</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Engagement with China is presented as proof of resistance against Western dominance. Good relations with India become synonymous with regional stability. Foreign policy becomes a performance of political identity rather than a framework for advancing long-term national interests. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 15:23:49 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Foreign Policy, USA, China, India</media:keywords>
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<title>Why are We Talking About What Women Wear?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Women are neither vessels of national honour nor laboratories of cultural experimentation. They are citizens. And the value of a citizen lies not in her clothing, but in her ideas, her voice, her political convictions, and her contributions. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:00:47 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Zubaida Rahman, Sari, Women, First Lady, Clothing, Political Expectations</media:keywords>
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<title>The Subaltern is Being Renamed</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ When the language of subalternity becomes a resource through which those closest to power construct their own political identities, we are compelled to ask: Are we truly listening to the voices of the marginalized, or are we witnessing the moral prestige of marginality being transformed into yet another form of political capital? ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:09:30 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Jamaat-e-Islami, Spivak, Subalterns</media:keywords>
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<title>The Bedsheet Theory of Women&amp;apos;s Success</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A political culture that cannot imagine women as independent political actors inevitably returns to patriarchy&#039;s oldest explanation: If a woman has succeeded, she must have traded her body for power. That explanation tells us very little about women. But it tells us almost everything about the society that produces it. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:04:29 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Women, Patriarchy, Female MP</media:keywords>
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<title>Citizenship, Rights, and the Moral Obligation of the State: Lessons from Florida and Saudi Arabi</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Whether a PhD student in Florida or a domestic worker returning from Saudi Arabia, the principle is the same: The state must recognize, protect, and advocate for all citizens equally. We do not merely demand justice; we demand presence, accountability, and moral integrity. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:00:21 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
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<title>Food Security is a Question of Sovereignty</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Hunger rarely appears alone; it is accompanied by indebtedness, illness, labour precarity, and social exclusion. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:57:44 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Amartya Sen, food insecurity</media:keywords>
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<title>Child Abuse, Religious Power, and the Silence of Institutions</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ A society in which the “honour of the huzur” matters more than a child’s cry has not yet learned justice. A state in which poor families are afraid to seek justice has not yet learned equal protection. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:25:08 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Justice, Settlement</media:keywords>
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<title>The Case for Mangal Shobhajatra</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ If belief is so fragile that papier-mâché masks and symbolic animals can threaten it, the problem lies not with the procession, but with the insecurity of that belief. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:12 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Mangal Shobhajatra, Dhaka University, Pohela Boishakh</media:keywords>
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<title>Armed in History, Unarmed in Memory</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Women were not mere supporters; they were shapers of conditions, bearers of risk, and, in many cases, decisive actors. The war cannot be imagined without them, but its written history has often proceeded as though it could. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:45:33 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Women, 1971, Liberation War</media:keywords>
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<title>When Transition Becomes a Gendered Battlefield</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Bangladesh does not lack visible women, women in campaigns, women in commemorative posters, women seated at consultation tables, women repeatedly invoked in speeches. But visibility without authority is not empowerment; it is performance. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:00:05 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Sheikh Hasina, Khaleda Zia, Benazir Bhutto, Indira Gandhi</media:keywords>
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<title>What a Woman Wears</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ The masculinity crisis in Bangladesh is not a psychological issue alone. Young men possess smartphones but lack jobs, security, or agency. Powerless in real life, they become powerful on screens. Their remaining sense of control is exercised through digital domination of women’s bodies. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:07:51 +0600</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Lubna Ferdowsi</dc:creator>
<media:keywords>Zaima Rahman, Zaima, Women</media:keywords>
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