by Stephenie Foster | Apr 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
For the second year running, I moderated the Washington, DC blog breakfast for the baronessgoudie.com blog. This smart blog, founded by my friend and member of the British House of Lords Baroness Mary Goudie, raises issues of importance to women and girls around the...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 10, 2011 | Women in Latin America and the Caribbean
Haiti has been in the news in the last week or so. The big news is that Haitis next president is Michel Sweet Mickey Martelly, a 50-year-old entertainer, who apparently defeated former Senator Mirlande Manigat. Receiving much less coverage was a hearing in Washington,...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 6, 2011 | Uncategorized
I am a fiction reader, and its rare when a non-fiction story grabs me in the same way as a good novel. Well, Gayle Tzemach Lemmons The Dressmaker of Khair Khana is such a book. Lemon was an accomplished journalist, in business school in 2005, who was assigned to write...
by Stephenie Foster | Apr 3, 2011 | Uncategorized
I love this piece by Kathleen Parker in todays Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/women-arent-pet-rocks/2011/04/01/AFTU4wJC_story.html As they taught us in law school, it speaks for itself.
by Stephenie Foster | Mar 31, 2011 | Women in the Middle East/North Africa
When I wake up every morning and open my newspaper, I read headlines about what is happening Libya. Today, for example, the New York Times headlines are Top Libyan Official Defects; Rebels Are Retreating, CIA Spies Aiding Airstrikes And Assessing Qaddafis Foes and...
