Prior to joining UMass, she worked as the Middle East Regional Editor for The Brief, a legal magazine published by Thomson Reuters. Pasha was the Islamic finance correspondent at Thomson Reuters, based in Dubai. She has taught print and online journalism at The American University in Cairo and has worked at CNNMoney.com as a banking and legal reporter, covering the Supreme Court and the Enron trial. Pasha was also a reporter at Dow Jones Newswires, where she had a daily column in the Wall Street Journal and appeared as a regular correspondent on CNBC Asia, covering the ADR market. She has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor’s degree in speech communication from Pace University.