Circum-Flash: Thank You!!! (To Circumspect's wonderful readers + participants)
Happy Thanksgiving and Eid Mubarak to everyone!!! This weekend has been a power packed one: a deep well of thanksgiving that has surely overflown its boundaries. And of course, such a special weekend can't go unnoticed!!! I think it's really special that two holidays set aside for reminding ourselves of how lucky and blessed we each are, were commemorated back-to-back! And in addition to the turkeys and lambs, I hope we all took a moment or two to be thankful for something.

D.C.'s Newseum: A Journalist's Playground
Anyone who knows me, knows how big I am on information access. Yesterday I covered an Oxfam/FP event at the Newseum - the latest addition to D.C.'s museums,

The Letter-Writing Project: Those Three Little Words
Dear You-Know-Yourself, Last week I went to an event for the Charter of Compassion launch, and it made me think about a couple of things, particularly with regards to the golden rule: treating others like you would like to be treated. One particular statement resonated with me intensely: "Many people don't want to be compassionate, they'd rather be right." Karen Armstrong's words. And boy, was she right on the money. The first person I thought of after she said that, was you. And w

Film Review/Alert - Inside Islam: What a Billion Muslims Really Think
 On Oct. 29, I received a forward from a friend talking about a supposed miracle in Egypt broadcast by CBS. Curious, I read the message. By the time I was done, I was fuming. Doing a quick google search, I failed to find the so-called CBS video. Maybe they took it off? I don't know. What I do know though, is that the kind of negative information sp

An Evening with Chimamanda Adichie (Author, Half of a Yellow Sun)
For all you Chimamanda Adichie fans out there, the wait is finally over! I really wanted to put this up earlier, but smart me, left the cable for uploading the sound file onto my computer, so couldn’t exactly transcribe it. I must say that the event (hosted by the D.C. Young African Professionals Network & the Center for Global Development) was less o