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Nawa’s public speaking experience began as a member of Logan High School’s Forensics team in Union City, California. As a sophomore and junior, she competed weekly in speaking tournaments in the San Francisco Bay Area. The exposure spurred her speaking career, and Nawa has been talking in front of audiences for the last 15 years, focusing on Islamic societies, women’s rights and immigrant life in the U.S. Audiences have hailed her TEDx talk “An exile finds home” as moving and powerful. Major television programs including NBC, CBS, Al Jazeera, FOX and MTV have invited her to share her opinions and analyses on their news programs. She’s open to discussing and giving speeches about a variety of topics, which she has lived through or covered as a reporter. She even has a comedy skit.

If you’re interested in hiring Nawa to speak, please contact her on email at fnawa@hotmail.com for fees and availability. She travels from California. 

 

Speaking Topics

  • Afghanistan and Iraq: Forgotten wars etched in America’s conscience
  • Afghanistan’s drug trade: Travels on the poppy trail
  • Afghan women’s roles in the drug trade: From victim to perpetrator
  • Afghanistan: Debunking myths
  • Afghan women post 2014: A glass half full
  • Human rights in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran: The common thread
  • The booming media in Afghanistan: The pros and cons of exposure
  • War profiteering: How American companies waste taxpayers’ money for shoddy work in war zones
  • Muslim women and the West: What the West doesn’t know
  • South Asia: The frontline of feminism
  • Human trafficking: The case of opium brides
  • Objectified or Hijabectified: Finding the middle ground as a Muslim woman
  • The demonization of the Muslim male: The narrative that stops equality
  • Growing up a refugee in America: Immigrant success stories
  • Afghan couples in the U.S.: A case study of why Muslim immigrants divorce
  • An exile finds home (TEDx)
  • Nostalgia rice and homeland kabobs: Stories from Little Kabul in America (comedy skit)
  • East comes West: How the Diaspora can reverse the brain drain
  • Islamaphobia post 9/11 in the U.S. and Europe
  • U.S. policy in Islamic countries: Short-sightedness leads to disaster
  • Unreliable sources: How the Western media covers the Islamic world
  • Ethnic media blast: Why immigrants have stopped tuning into mainstream media in the U.S.
  • The life of a foreign correspondent: Survival tactics
  • Foraying into freelance journalism: One woman’s 15-year journey to make it
  • Becoming an author: The life of a nonfiction book
  • The crisis of parenting in America: Finding what works for you and your children
  • Raising a bilingual child in an English-only country
  • Lessons in pedagogy: Pre-schoolers and university students

 

Bonfire HeightsCountries of Interest:

  • Afghanistan
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Syria
  • Israel
  • Pakistan
  • India
  • Egypt
  • Palestine
  • Turkey
  • United Arab Emirates
  • United States
  • Mexico

 

Afghanistan ReflectedClients:

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
  • Commonwealth Club
  • World Affairs Council
  • Columbia University
  • Stanford University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • New York University
  • City University of New York
  • Queens College
  • Washington University, St. Louis
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • California Institute of Arts
  • San Francisco State University
  • San Jose State University
  • California State University, East Bay
  • Chabot College
  • University of Arizona
  • Thunderbird Business School
  • Indiana University, Bloomington
  • Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
  • Seattle Public Library
  • San Jose Public Library
  • San Francisco Public Library
  • Carmel Public Library
  • American Association of University Women
  • Thursday Morning Dialogue
  • Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars
  • Women and Word
  • Women for Afghan Women
  • Women’s Media Center
  • Washington High School, Fremont, California
  • Junior State of America
  • Rotary Club of San Jose
  • City National Bank
  • Diplomatic Language Services
  • Litquake
  • Bonfire Heights
  • Busboys and Poets
  • The Booksmith
  • Bird and Beckett Bookstore
  • Capitola Book Café
  • Powell’s Bookstore (and dozens of other bookstores and libraries)