Maher Sattar

2 weeks ago | fullerproject.org | Maher Sattar

The Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa’s third largest country that sits at the center of the continent, has had a long and complex history of conflict. Though the recent capture of Goma and Bukavu, the largest cities in eastern DRC, by the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels, has brought this decades-long conflict back into media attention, violence has been escalating since 2021.

2 months ago | fullerproject.org | Jodi Enda |Muktadir Rashid |Maher Sattar

A day after the Los Angeles fires began, I returned to what was once my two bedroom condo in the Pacific Palisades. I wanted to see what was left. I masked up with an N95 – I wore two, in fact, thinking that it would protect me and my pregnancy better. In spite of the double layer, I could smell the acrid, toxic fumes that the smouldering piles of rubble were emitting. I felt light-headed, and I had a headache for two days, even though I barely left the car.

Jan 20, 2025 | fullerproject.org | Muktadir Rashid |Maher Sattar |Louise Donovan

Eight years ago, on the day after Donald Trump moved into the White House, millions of women and their supporters donned pink “pussy” hats and marched in cities across the country and the world in a show of force that we now know largely failed. That the Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in American history, with half a million people cramming into the streets of downtown Washington and some 3.5 million marching in other cities and towns, mattered not a whit.

Jan 16, 2025 | foreignpolicy.com | Muktadir Rashid |Maher Sattar

DHAKA—The turning point came at midnight, when women hit the streets. By mid-July, Bangladeshi university students had been protesting for more than a month for the reform of government job quotas, which they said created a nepotistic patronage system that rewarded supporters of the ruling Awami League. But few predicted they would bring down Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who had ruled Bangladesh for 15 years with an iron fist.

Dec 2, 2024 | fullerproject.org | Qadri Inzamam |Megha Rajagopalan |Saumya Khandelwal |Maher Sattar

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to oversee the nation’s health system, worries the medical establishment for many reasons: his advocacy for raw milk, embrace of unproven supplements and, most of all, his rejection of vaccines. Kennedy’s attacks on one vaccine in particular could specifically endanger women. The human papillomavirus, or HPV, vaccine has been demonstrated to prevent cervical cancer.