Saman Shad

I'm a columnist for SBS Voices and have written a number of articles for them around identity, gender roles and race.

I'm a regular writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. Here are some of my articles.

No parent wants to watch their child get sick, especially from a disease that is preventable, for which there are...

Last Sunday, a woman who looks good in a bikini and was tactfully able to answer a question about plastic...

Maria Kang probably had good intentions when she posted a photo of herself on Facebook wearing a skimpy outfit that...

If you haven’t seen Miley Cyrus' performance at the VMA’s you clearly have many, many better things to do with...

With both major political parties announcing initiatives to keep women employed, why are so many hurdles placed in front of...

Saman Shad: There's widespread anxiety about boat people, but few migrants arrive this way. Such ignorance isn't good for the nation

Disciplining young children is what parents are supposed to do, but smacking should be illegal, writes Saman Shad....

It’s hard to believe that little more than a year ago Malala Yousafzai was a Pakistani teenager living in Swat...

A recent article by the artistic director of Playwriting Australia discussed what many theatregoers probably already knew – that Australian...

You’d have to be living under a rock to not know that house prices in our cities are verging on...

Saman Shad: You told us: Despite incentives to reproduce, Australians are getting older. They should embrace young immigrants, not lock them up

Children are increasingly excluded from public life in London. Saman Shad suggests that Londoners get over their baby aversions, take a lesson from Dubai, and start welcoming kids into more restaurants and pubs.

When did your child's birthday cake become a point of judgement on your parenting skills? Saman Shad longs for the days when a Sara Lee cake sufficed and parties were judgement free.