Last week I traveled to Egypt to participate in my company’s election observation for their constitutional referendum. It was a crazy week! After briefings in Cairo, we were send out to Governaorates around the country to observe how the election process was taking place. My location was in the delta in northern Egypt, in between … Continue reading
There hasn’t been a lot of international main stream media coverage about the upcoming elections on Jan 5th, mostly because the opposition party is not participating. Because of this decision, 154 seats are uncontested, and the ruling party is going to be able to form their own government regardless. This also means that no international … Continue reading
Political Clashes Grow in Bangladesh , New York Times Surprisingly the stormy political situation in Bangladesh hasn’t made it to the main stream media the past few weeks. (There are a lot of crisis’s happening in the world now it seems). NYT finally posted this story yesterday, about the March for Democracy that the opposition … Continue reading
This has been quite a busy week leading up to city corporation elections that happened today in 4 districts across Bangladesh. Earlier this week I traveled to Sylhet to participate in a Mayoral debate that we helped arrange with a local TV station here. Then I was off to Gazipur, home of thousands of garment … Continue reading
Last week I wrote about how I was going to northern Bangladesh for a week, and how scared I was to go. As it turns out, it was much worse than I could have imagined. There was a hartal, which left us stuck in Bogra for an extra day. In case you are wondering there … Continue reading
Last Friday marked one month in Bangladesh for me. To celebrate this occasion, I finally had my first case of “Dhaka Belly” so far I’ve been very lucky and been able to eat at a few restaurants around town and not get sick. (In comparison we had someone visiting from the DC office who got … Continue reading
Blonde And In Bangladesh 