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TASNEEM AHMAR
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Tasneem Ahmar completed her Masters in Mass
Communication at the University of Karachi (1978) and Masters
in Communication at the University of Hawaii in 1990. She enrolled
for the Ph.D programme in "Communication and Cultural Studies",
with the National College of Arts, Lahore in 2000. Her areas
of special interest are media monitoring, advocacy and training
on women and human rights, political rights, HIV/AIDS, health,
violence against women and education.
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Since 1997, she has been Director of the
Uks Research Resource and Publication Centre on Women and Media,
Islamabad Centre, designing and organizing seminars, conferences
and workshops, conducting research/studies (field and desk);
writing reports on various development issues; watching the
media, providing training in gender sensitization and awareness.
From May 2003, she has been working with Internews-USA as Executive
Producer for the Uks radio Project, leading a team of four women
radio journalists in producing a weekly 30-minute Urdu language
radio programme, interviewing personalities, producing features
and discussion programmes on women and social issues.
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She was Director of the Overseas Research
Center of the American Institute of Pakistan Studies, (AIPS),
of Wake Forest University, North Carolina, USA (1996-1997) representing
the AIPS before agencies and officials of Government of Pakistan
and the academic institutions of Pakistan, and maintaining a
good working relationship and liaison with US agencies like
United States Education Foundation in Pakistan (USEF/P), United
States Information Services (USIS), and the Embassy of the United
States. Prior to that she had been Research Associate, Center
for Women's Studies at the Quaid- i-Azam University, Islamabad
(1992-96) and Assistant Professor at the Department of Mass
Communication. University of Karachi (1986 - 1992). She has
had responsibility for maintaining a research and resource materials
section on gender and human rights issues, and for the development
of a curriculum on Women and literature, and Women and Media
for Master's degree programme in Women's Studies. She taught
courses to graduate and post-graduate students on Development
Communication and Practical Journalism. She been responsible
for guiding and preparing graduate and postgraduate students
for field research, especially gender-based community outreach
and development research
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As a freelance writer and journalist she
wrote numerous articles, features and series on development,
especially women's issues. These included "Modern Women Writers",
published in Women's Own from January 1987 to August 1988. She
was Senior sub Editor for 'The Star' (Herald Publications Limited)
in Karachi (1982-1985), and for the "Muslim", Islamabad (1978-82)
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She has conducted numerous consultancy assignments,
for among others the Election Commission of Pakistan and UNDP
(December 2003- March 2004); for the Government of Pakistan,
as Media Adviser for drafting communication strategies on information
dissemination on PRSP (Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper) with
special focus on gender components of poverty reduction. She
participated in studies on the formulation and implementation
of a Gender Sensitive Code of Ethics for the Print Media, and
in promoting media awareness of HIV/AIDS issues, and awareness
of drug abuse in Pakistan (with the UN International Drug Control
Program 1999) and the Panos Institute (South Asia) (1998).
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For the Media South Asia Project, she wrote
a Country Profile of the Media in Pakistan and conducted field
research on the use of the media in Pakistan as well as interviews
with leading media practitioners.
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Tasneem Ahmar has regularly attended and
presented papers at conferences and seminars in Pakistan and
abroad - in the Philippines, India, Turkey, Malaysia and Hawaii.
Among scholarships and awards given to her, she was awarded
the Mary Morgan Hewett Certificate of Excellence in Feature
Writing, (1998) in an open competition for all EWC (East-West
Center, Hawaii) female grantee women (past and present) throughout
the world.
Address:
House-10-B, Street-13,
F-8/3, Islamabad,
Pakistan
E-mail: Uks@comsats.net.pk
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