A birthday gift turned pilgrimage: mosques, bazaars, night trains, and the Iran the world rarely pauses to see.
By Shehla Ahmed

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A Dream Unfolding - I: From Islamabad To Tehran Amid Global Tensions Far from a sombre city, Tehran revealed itself at the Tabiat Bridge, where live bands played and young couples held hands, shattering preconceptions of Iranian

From Tehran to Mashhad, this journey reveals an Iran of beauty, resistance, faith, and quiet freedoms hidden beyond headlines.
By Shehla Ahmed

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Book Suggestion: Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines Unmasking AI goes beyond the headlines about existential risks produced by Big Tech. It is the remarkable story of how Buolamwini uncovered what she calls “the coded gaze”—the evidence of encoded discrimination and exclusion in tech products—and how she galvanized the movement to prevent AI harms by founding the Algorithmic Justice League. Applying an intersectional lens to both the tech industry and the research sector, she shows how racism, sexism, colorism, and ableism can overlap and render broad swaths of humanity “excoded” and therefore vulnerable in a world rapidly adopting AI tools. Computers, she reminds us, are reflections of both the aspirations and the limitations of the people who create them.

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