Aysha Qamar

New York

Breaking News Editor at Brown Girl Magazine

🇵🇰🇺🇸 writer | foodie | advocate @themessenger @browngirlmag

Articles

Read the heartbreaking last words of Palestinian journalists covering Gaza

Nov 4, 2024 | reckon.news | Aysha Qamar

With the death toll in the Gaza Strip increasing by the thousands daily, reporters covering the atrocities are especially vulnerable. Journalists — displaced and forced to flee their homes, often without equipment or protective gear — risk exposure to Israeli airstrikes and other ground forces.. ‘“We are covering the war on Gaza because this is our journalistic duty. It is entrusted upon us,” 31-year-old Mariam Abu Dagga, a photojournalist for the Independent Arabic, told CNN.
Occupied Palestine becomes the deadliest place in the world for children, according to U.N. officials

Oct 28, 2024 | reckon.news | Aysha Qamar

With no aid reaching northern Gaza and Israeli attacks continuing on a daily basis, occupied Palestine is considered the deadliest place in the world for children, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Children (OCHA).
More journalists have been killed in Gaza than any other conflict zone, nonprofit finds

Oct 24, 2024 | reckon.news | Aysha Qamar

At least 128 journalists and members of the media have been killed in Gaza, Israel and Lebanon since Oct. 7 of last year, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The ongoing violence has seen more journalists killed in the first month of conflictsince the nonprofit first started collecting such statistics in 1992. The CPJ confirmed the deaths of 123 Palestinian media workers and journalists, two Israeli and three Lebanese.
Breaking down the symbols of Palestinian resistance and strength

Oct 22, 2024 | reckon.news | Aysha Qamar

More than a year into the conflict in Gaza, which has spread to other regions and claimed the lives of more than 42,000 Palestinians, thousands worldwide continue to rally in solidarity, proudly displaying symbols many now associate with what they call the resistance. The heart of the Palestinian struggle lies in a tapestry of these symbols, woven with history, hope and resilience.
A Gruesome Love Story Not for the Faint Hearted

Jul 3, 2024 | browngirlmagazine.com | Aysha Qamar

4 min read Bollywood’s latest release “Kill” stands true to its name, in every sense of the word — the film is pretty much blood and gore galore. After its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023, “Kill” became known as one of the most violent action films to have been made in the Hindi film industry.
'A Nice Indian Boy' is More Than Your Average Bollywood Love

Mar 18, 2024 | browngirlmagazine.com | Aysha Qamar

5 min read “A Nice Indian Boy” premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival, it received two standing ovations and positive reviews. The movie is currently waiting for a distribution partner. Reminding us why we all grew up loving DDLJ or ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ Roshan Sethi’s ‘A Nice Indian Boy’ is the sweet rom-com our hearts need in this tragic world.
tiktok News at Daily Kos

Mar 15, 2024 | dailykos.com | Aysha Qamar |Marissa Higgins |Walter Einenkel |Egberto Willies

Advocates to Biden: Ban Medicare Advantage. Joy-Ann Reid did the best job on the TikTok narrative. Advocates are trying to tell Biden to get rid of Medicare Advantage. Joy-Ann Reid and Robert Reich provided the best coverage of the insane TikTok fiasco. Unlike the shallow coverage elsewhere, they hit the real issues. Advocates to Biden: Ban Medicare...
A Lesson in What Real Representation Looks Like

Feb 25, 2024 | browngirlmagazine.com | Aysha Qamar

5 min read Netflix’s “One Day” has quickly become one of the platform’s most popular shows since its release on Feb. 8. The 14-episode series based on the 2009 novel by David Nicholls follows the lives of Emma Morley (played by Ambika Mod) and Dexter Mayhew (played by Leo Woodall) over two decades. Each episode moves forward a year on the same day, beginning with the day the two met, at their college graduation on July 15, 1988, in Edinburgh.
Sarayu Blue in Amazon Prime's 'Expats'

Feb 1, 2024 | browngirlmagazine.com | Aysha Qamar

6 min read Amazon Prime’s newest series “Expats” stars Sarayu Blue, an iconic South Asian actress with over 20 years of experience and one of the first in the diaspora to lead her own show. Blue has been in over 40 TV series from comedy to drama, her latest endeavor being a six-part limited series based on the author Janice Y. K. Lee’s 2016 novel “The Expatriates.” The series can be put into one general theme: What is motherhood?
Jailed Schoolteacher Brought to Court in Chains and a Leash After Attacking Neo-Nazis Sparks Outrage

Jan 31, 2024 | themessenger.com | Aysha Qamar

International outrage has ensued after an Italian woman was photographed in shackles in a Budapest court. Italy and others have expressed strong disapproval of the treatment of Ilaria Salis, a 39-year-old Italian woman, by Hungarian authorities after footage of her arrest was shared online. Salis, a teacher from Monza, was arrested in February 2023 after participating in a counter-demonstration, the annual “Day of Honour,” against a neo-Nazi rally, The Independent reported.