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Covers:  education, Islam, mental health, terrorism, women's rights, popular culture, feminism
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Asra Nomani’s Biography

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Born in India, Asra Nomani immigrated to the United States as a child with her family, learning English as a second language with Nancy Drew as her best friend. Growing up in Morgantown, West Virginia, Nomani earned her BA at West Virginia University and her MA in International Communications at American University. Having arrived in the United States as a girl who knew not a word of English, she joined the Wall Street Journal at the age of 23 in the summer of 1988 as a staff reporter. Over 15 …

Asra Nomani’s Journalist Portfolio

This Is Danny Pearl's Final Story

This Is Danny Pearl's Final Story

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is walking toward me in a black prayer cap, a cream-colored tunic, and matching shalwa…

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As Muslim women, we actually ask you not to wear the hijab in the name of interfaith solidarity

As Muslim women, we actually ask you not to wear the hijab in the name of interfaith solidarity

Last week, three female religious leaders - a Jewish rabbi, an Episcopal vicar and a Unitarian reverend - and…

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Meet the honor brigade, an organized campaign to silence debate on Islam

Meet the honor brigade, an organized campaign to silence debate on Islam

"You have shamed the community," a fellow Muslim in Morgantown, W.Va., said to me as we sat in a Panera Bread…

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Asian American students have a target on their backs thanks to critical race theory

Asian American students have a target on their backs thanks to critical race theory

I've been joining a group of parents in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Zoom to discuss our mounting concern ove…

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Opinion | The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun

Opinion | The purge of Asian American students at Thomas Jefferson High School has begun

Asra Q. Nomani, the mother of a 2021 TJ graduate, is co-founder of Coalition for TJ and vice president at Par…

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Opinion | An unfair push for racial equality at Thomas Jefferson

Opinion | An unfair push for racial equality at Thomas Jefferson

Asra Q. Nomani, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, is a parent of a student at Thomas Jefferson High Scho…

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Lawmakers say they are standing at the gates against 'Trojan horses' promoting malign foreign interests

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a series of exclusive interviews with Fox News Digital, lawmakers on the House Foreign Affairs Committee sounded the alarm on a sprawling network of "Trojan horse" activists, nonprofits and social media influencers allegedly amplifying the hostile messages of foreign adversaries straight through the open gates of American democracy.
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Lawmakers throw out 'Trojan horse' activists they say are engaged in American subversion

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By Asra Nomani Verified, Preston Mizell Verified, Michael Dorgan Verified
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin and two fellow agitators entered the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing room 2272 today, wearing camera-ready T-shirts supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Communist Party of Cuba, turning themselves into a live demonstration of the "Trojan horses" for foreign influence that lawmakers had gathered to examine.
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‘Trojan horses' in America: Congress probes influence networks tied to China, Iran and Cuba

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Last Tuesday, at the corner of Church Street and 16th Street NW, blocks from the White House, Christine Balling, a former advisor to U.S. Special Operations Command South, led a panel discussion on the national security threat that communist-run Cuba poses to the U.S. Suddenly, a fresh-faced former college basketball star, Olivia DiNucci, stood up to steal the stage at the Institute of World Politics, yelling as she clutched a hand-painted banner: "SANCTIONS KILL IN CUBA." "There is global...
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Awards

Society of Professional Journalists Award

2011 - Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award

SPJ’s Distinguished Teaching in Journalism Award honors outstanding journalism educators who have made a significant contribution to the profession and/or journalism education. Students, former students, alumni, colleagues and professionals may submit nominations.

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Society of Professional Journalists Award

2011 - Distinguished Service Award

Asra Nomani is a former reporter for the Wall Street Journal, a contributor to the Daily Beast and a lecturer in journalism at Georgetown University's English Department. Barbara Feinman Todd is the Journalism Director in Georgetown’s English Department where she teaches, and was the founding associate dean of the university’s MPS in Journalism graduate program. Together, they founded the Pearl Project, organizing more than 30 students to investigate the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The project’s report, issued last January, found that four men convicted in Pakistan in 2002 were not present during the murder and that U.S. officials know it. The project concluded that Pearl was killed by al-Qaida strategist Khalid Sheik Mohammad as a part of a “multifaceted, at times chaotic conspiracy” involving at least 27 men, members of three or more militant groups. As many as 14 of the conspirators are thought to remain free, according to the project report.

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