About Divanee

Miral Sattar founded Divanee Magazine in 2003 to speak to young South Asian American women about individuality, style, and personality in the community. It's about finding a place, being irreverent, battling outdated cultural notions and ideas. Sometimes it's just about getting a beauty tip. It's about not falling victim to outdated cultural notions like marrying by a certain age, picking a certain profession just because of your sex. We don't think "Hey, I can't do this because I'm a woman." We just do.

We won't tell you how to attract guys or anything that will make you demean yourself. We have stories of women who have battled against fitting inside the 'desi cultural box.' We cover politics, music and basically anything of interest to the young South Asian woman.

We dare to be different and we dare you to be a DIVANEE, crazy and passionate about what you do without feeling guilty.

We test our limits. We aren't afraid of being judged. We just are. We try to reach out to our readers and give them the unspoken voice.

"It's about giving people a platform they never thought they had before."

As always, feedback is continuously welcome and we encourage you to use the chat forum to discuss issues you feel are relevant to South Asian women. If there are any topics that you would like us to cover in upcoming issues, please post them in the discussion board or correspond with us via email at feedback at divanee dot com. We would love to hear from our readers.

Enjoy your visit and please continue exploring the rest of Divanee Magazine.

Staff

Editor-in-Chief

		Miral Sattar

Executive Editor

		Sarah Khan

Contributors

		Nadia Ali
		Shyema Azam
		Mahvish Bari
		Erum Chaudhry
		Khadija Chaudhry
		Tina Chaudhary
		Nida Elley
		Tariq Fancy
		Sarah Hasan
		Shahla Husain
		Leah Jayasanker
		Razia Kosi
		Priyanka Krishnan
		Tina Kwan
		Rachna D. Jain
		Tom Lada
		Shazia Memon
		Ahmar Masood
		Zainab Mahmoud
		Lesley Mattos
		Neesha Dosanjh Meminger
		Nadia Mohammad
		Hina Mughal
		Pia Padukone
		Ekta Patel
		Fahmida Rashid
		Meera Rastogi
		Shivani Reddy
		Ritu Rayat
		Ayesha Sattar
		Saara Sheikh
		Sabrina Siddiqui
		Sreekala Sripathy
		Vimla Sriram
		Amna Syed
		Anjali Verma
		Hina Yusuf

Section Editors

		Mahvish Bari
		Ayesha Gilani
		Safia Hussain
		Copy Editors
		Umbreen Bhatti
		Sandhya George
		Nadia Mohammad
		Zaynab Nawaz
		Erin Sawaya
		Sreekala Sripathy

Photography

		Ahmed Akbar
		Ayesha Azher
		Bill Jordan
		Omar Kathwari
		Janusz Kawa
		Nisha Sonde

Graphic Artists

		Asma Shafi

Cover Models

		Shyema Azam (Fall 2006)
		Mona (Summer 2006)
		Vennila Kain (Summer 2005)
		Noureen DeWulf (Spring 2005)
		Suraiya Syed(Winter 2004)
		Kiran Mann(Fall 2004)
		Tina Chaudhary(Summer 2004)

Framework

		Asad Sheth