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This month's Marie Claire features the class of Asra Nomani at Georgetown University where the students are trying to learn one thing — the identities of the men who participated in the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in 2002. (Pearl and his wife Marianne were staying at Nomani's home in Pakistan when he was killed, so she has more of an academic interest in the project.) Nomani's mostly female students have pinpointed the real identities of 15 of the 19 suspected participants that remain at large and gotten their hands on (and shared with the FBI) the full original video of Pearl's grisly murder. But the real question is how in just 2 years Nomani figured out more of the case than the FBI? Oh, right, they don't care anymore — they got two of the guys, after all. Who cares about the other 19? [Marie Claire] More »
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Asra Nomani is best-known today for imploring the press to just forget about fucking Britney Spears already. But Asra Nomani was best-known last summer for being the former best friend of Mariane Pearl who had basically been dropped by Mariane for Angelina Jolie, who played Mariane in the movie A Mighty Heart, and was, for that and various other reasons, declared by Esquire to be the "best person in the world" (in a piece notably criticized as the worst celebrity profile in the world.) I thought hard about ALL THESE THINGS when I read this week's Rolling Stone cover story on Britney Spears, which is sort of the logical sequel to the Angelina Jolie profile; overwrought, over-intellectualized and really fucking good rumination on the transformation of a troubled young girl estranged from her father. Is any of it true, though? Well, at the beginning, Britney gets approached by a nervous fan, who says she's "from the South too" and could she maybe get a picture for her little sister? Lips "almost vibrating with anger," she stares the girl "deep in the eyes" and says "I don't know who you think I am, bitch." (Um, Britney, bitch?) "But I'm not that person." In a way, it's the same thing Nomani is trying to say! More »
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