Author

Aleza Waheed

Aleza is currently pursuing a degree in International Development and History with a Minor in Political Science. Her fields of interest include the social histories and political movements of South Asia, the United States and the Middle East. You can probably find her begrudgingly getting coffee at C4 Starbucks, or waiting for an elevator in Leacock.

The World’s Most Unbreathable City

Aleza Waheed Dec 4, 2019

I have been privileged to live and grow up in a place where the air is not slowly poisoning me, nor affecting my education, and I wish that those in my other home will soon be able to say the same.
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Do (or Should) Companies Value ‘Freedom’ over Markets?

Aleza Waheed Oct 30, 2019

Apple, Blizzard, Google etc. are just a few of many American companies whose recent decisions to maintain access to the Chinese market have shown their preference for the latter.
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The Graveyard of Empires: Peace Continues to Elude Afghanistan

Aleza Waheed Sep 30, 2019

After nearly two decades of conflict in the region, the subject of Afghanistan has slowly waned from public consciousness as fatigue, wariness and frustration reach all time heights with the current U.S administration, but as the war…
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The Forgotten Territory

Aleza Waheed May 12, 2019

Bringing up Nunavut in conversation often elicits one common reaction—usually something along the lines of "sorry what? where? the place with the igloos?" Growing up in the Ontario education system certainly left my knowledge of the…
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Burning Bridges from Partition to Pulwama

Aleza Waheed Mar 13, 2019

The recent attack in Pulwama, India-administered Kashmir, has left nearly 40 soldiers dead and all but destroyed any fleeting chance of rapprochement between the two longstanding rivals. Not even a week after the bombing, two Indian fighter…
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