A Maryland Democrat running for Congress decried the lack of female doctors in the House and promised to tackle widespread "mansplaining" on healthcare if elected. Nadia Hashimi, a pediatrician and ...

CHAO: So, I was wondering if you could tell me a little bit about your background. When did you first come across this practice of bacha posh? HASHIMI: So, it's interesting -- when you grow up, within ...

A Maryland House candidate says in a new ad that she is running for Congress because there is too much “mansplaining” in the federal government about health care. Nadia Hashimi says in an ad ...

For most of us, it is difficult to imagine life in a country very different from ours. In her literary debut, “The Pearl That Broke Its Shell,” Afghan-American author Nadia Hashimi illuminates the ...

In the case of Hashimi's book the person in question is Sitara Zamani, the daughter of the chief advisor to Sardar Daoud, president of Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion. Sitara's life is one of ...

Nadia Hashimi is a good storyteller. In her first three novels, she tells of life in Afghanistan as people live according to ancient traditions, affecting life in ways American readers can hardly ...

Nadia Hashimi’s new novel, “Sparks Like Stars,” begins in the spring of 1978, as a coup to overthrow the sitting Afghan president, Daoud Khan, reaches its boiling point within the palace of Kabul.

When Dr. Nadia Hashimi was a seventh-grader in Ramsey, N.J., she and a friend convinced the local board of education to ban Styrofoam from school cafeterias. It taught her an early lesson in the art ...

Afghan-American Nadia Hashimi's debut novel, The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, is a searing tale of powerlessness and the freedom to control one's own fate. In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father ...

Afghanistan is a bleak place to be female. Westerners know some of the reasons why: Men have the power to control the lives of their wives and daughters, sometimes cruelly. Without a husband or a ...