I highly recommend reading this article (link below) by UCLA history professor Nile Green. We need to learn more from the lessons of history as we endeavour to forge mutually enriching ties between Muslims and the “western world” in the present. One of the…
The following is a letter I wrote and posted to Larry Mantle’s Air Talk facebook page, in response to his coverage of the horrific events in San Bernardino. His is by no means the only voice promoting these harmful and erroneous views. People of…
As a Spanish interpreter, I’m constantly in a position to have others speak through me. It’s an honor and a solemn duty to strive to convey their messages safely across cultural frontiers. While my work deals in the crossing of metaphorical borders, vast and…
Deferred… no longer I. Invaded, Assaulted, Corralled, Shackled, Kidnapped. Dehumanized, Crammed, Shipped, Enslaved, Exploited. “Freed”, Indentured, Tricked, Caricatured, Betrayed. Lynched, Targeted, Humiliated, Demeaned, Railroaded. Profiled, Slandered, Patronized, Marginalized, Brutalized. Stopped, Frisked, Bullied, Clubbed, Incarcerated. Scapegoated, Feared, Hunted, Shot, Murdered. II. Unbroken, Inspiring, Beautiful, Hopeful,…
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