Mirza Yawar Baig

How to overcome the modern challenges of parenting

19 Apr 2015 / By Mirza Yawar Baig

THE biggest challenge of parenting is to accept that we are facing a world that is very different from the one we grew up in. This is true irrespective of which country you live in with the additional complexity of a rapid destruction of walls between cultures. The truth is that your solutions don’t work…...

Who decides what gender equality is?

10 Feb 2015 / By Mirza Yawar Baig

LET me begin with a disclaimer in the best modern tradition of writing that I accept that there’s gender discrimination and that women invariably get the short end of the stick. There is oppression of women, in Muslim societies as much as in others, all the rights that Islam gives women notwithstanding. This is despicable,…...