Denmark Diaries: Chapter Three
Why was I going to Denmark? It was a country I knew nothing about, other than the fact that it was going to be the coldest weather I’d ever lived through.
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Opinion
Viewpoints, commentary and perspectives from The Caravan
Denmark Diaries: Chapter Two
Little did I realize that I was one of the people that had let public anxieties about Arabs seep in, and reinforced that stereotype by acting in a particular way that would later appear crazy to me.
Read MoreThe Anxious Writer: Chapter Four
Loss. We all have different associations with the word. We all stumbled onto it in some form or another. We
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Capturing Jazz, From America’s Black Flower
Entering into a scent of Black America’s perfumes lays a revival of one people’s story. . .Her-story, that is.
Read Moreأنا كمـان فـي أخــطـر مـديـنـة للنـسـاء بالعـالـم
لم يكن وقع هذا الخبر صادما لي بصراحة، بل لن أنكر أنني شعرت ببعض من الراحة بمعرفتي أن معاناة نساء مصر هي أصعب معاناة عالميا لأنني حقا لا أتخيل وضعا أسوأ من هذا.
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Drop It, Killjoys
It seems callous that some may see the celebration as being negligent of the hardships of the Egyptian people, while being oblivious to the fact that it has reached some of the very same disadvantaged Egyptians they claim to care about.
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Letter from Lebanon: Finding the ‘Home’ in Homesickness
Being homesick means so much more than simply missing your hometown. At first you conclude that ‘home’ is just a fictional space, and that what is home is who you find at ‘home.’
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But I know today I am a different person. I still miss him and it still breaks my heart and I still struggle to understand that I will always have a void and that there will never be anyone to fill it.
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Ever since that bitter September day in 2013 I have been open about speaking about my father, about the loss and about my feelings towards it.
Read More#SorryNotSorry: Why I Won’t Apologize for Being Muslim
Sure, there’s a wide range of anti-Muslim rhetoric going on in the world right now, but if people choose to be bigoted, xenophobic and racist, that’s on them.
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