{"id":6372,"date":"2025-09-06T11:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/?page_id=6372"},"modified":"2025-09-15T14:34:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T14:34:51","slug":"mehlaqa-samdani-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/mehlaqa-samdani-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mehlaqa Samdani"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6372\" class=\"elementor elementor-6372\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a194ee2 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a194ee2\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-29afb78\" data-id=\"29afb78\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a9239a4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a9239a4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Mehlaqa-Samdani-rbctzpikqi56i6f1pthcrxjewfcdpcdihj62nqjhxk.jpg\" title=\"Mehlaqa Samdani\" alt=\"Mehlaqa Samdani\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-89f1301 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"89f1301\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Mehlaqa Samdani<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70ca40a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"70ca40a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Mehlaqa Samdani is the founder and director of Community Alliance for Peace and Justice, a Massachusetts-based advocacy group focused on South Asia and the Middle East. She previously led Critical Connections, educating the public on issues like Islamophobia and U.S. foreign policy. Mehlaqa has held roles at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations, researching civil society and women\u2019s roles in Muslim-majority countries. Her writings have appeared in Foreign Policy, the New York Times, Huffington Post, and Foreign Policy in Focus<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mehlaqa Samdani Mehlaqa Samdani is the founder and director of Community Alliance for Peace and Justice, a Massachusetts-based advocacy group focused on South Asia and the Middle East. She previously led Critical Connections, educating the public on issues like Islamophobia and U.S. foreign policy. Mehlaqa has held roles at the Center for Strategic and International [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6372","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","style2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6372"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6372\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgetownpakistanconclave.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}