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" My sister Tala has twins, and they're wonderful. "

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" My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon. "

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" Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative. "

" Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it. "

" Protecting free speech is not only a matter of principle, it is also pragmatic. "

" As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face. "

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" Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of state repression makes a mockery of the rule of law. "

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" Democracy is dead in the Maldives. "

" I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis. "

" I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner. "

" If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that. "

" I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sunbathing in their resort. "

" There was a break in the proceedings when Peter Greste was deported, and that was considered sufficient then to allow the executive to intervene. "

" I remember all the stages in my career where I almost didn't have enough confidence to try for something, almost didn't have the guts to follow something I was excited about doing, because I didn't know anyone else who'd done it, or other people made me question it. "

" I want to work on cases that I feel the most passionate about. "

" If you don't have a good case, and you don't have a good message, then shining a light on it is not going to get you very far. "