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ISOBEL GRANT
Daily Staff Reporter

MSA, ISA hosts “Meet a Muslim” event
in Mason Hall to engage in conversation

Students opened dialogue to discuss religious, cultural differences on campus

MESA hosts

dialogue on
masculinity
in Arab life

CAMPUS LIFE

Panelists discuss how
Arab identities interact
in traditional gender roles

EMMA RUBERG
Daily Staff Reporter

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Professor
talks Israeli-
Palestinian
relationship

Victor Lieberman spoke
on politics, international
relations as election nears

ATTICUS RAASCH
Daily Staff Reporter

Jawad Sukhanyar, a University
of
Michigan
Knight-Wallace
journalism fellow, presented on
his experiences as both a civilian
and reporter in Afghanistan
in
“Warzone
Reporting:
Experiences of a Journalist in
Afghanistan” at the International
House Ann Arbor. The event
was co-sponsored by the Center
for South Asian Studies and the
Center for Middle Eastern and
North African Studies.
Sukhanyar
is
an
Afghan
reporter for The New York
Times based in his home country.
Working for The New York Times
since 2011, Sukhanyar is the
longest-serving reporter in The
Times’ Kabul Bureau, covering
women’s issues and human rights
in Afghanistan.
Knight-Wallace
Fellow
Stephen Ssenkaaba introduced
Sukhanyar and explained the
prestigious
Knight-Wallace
fellowship.
“The
Knight-Wallace
journalism fellowship recognizes

accomplished
journalists
committed to the future of
journalism,”
Ssenkaaba
said.
“(The
journalists)
deepen
knowledge, develop new ideas,
learn new skills and address
challenges
facing
journalism
today.”
Sukhanyar
began
his
presentation by explaining why
he decided to pursue journalism.
He reflected on the assassination
of Afghan politician Ahmad
Shah Massoud on Sept. 9, 2001,
explaining he was terrified of
the possibility of the Taliban
taking control of Afghanistan.
Sukhanyar
described
the
climate of Afghanistan after the
assassination as “the darkest days
of Afghanistan.”
“When we heard about this we
were shocked, we didn’t know
what to do,” Sukhanyar said. “I
asked my family, my brother,
‘What’s coming next for us? What
are we going to do?’”
Currently, the majority of
Afghanistan is controlled by the
Taliban. Sukhanyar expressed
concern for the continuation of
the war in Afghanistan.

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in Afghanistan

Take Back the Night organized 41st
march, rally against sexual assault

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New York Times reporter Jawad Sukhanyar
presents on experiences writing in war zone

BARBARA COLLINS
Daily Staff Reporter

University Students Against Rape, community members recognize , celebrate survivors

Wednesday evening, students
and community members gath-
ered in the Michigan League for
the 41st annual Take Back the
Night Ann Arbor. Campus rep-
resentatives from University of
Michigan’s University Students

Against Rape, in cooperation
with community leaders from
Standing Tough Against Rape
Society, organized the rally,
march and vigil to recognize
and celebrate the stories of sex-
ual assault survivors.
Public Policy senior Nicole
Kozlowski, University Students
Against Rape senior student
leader, hoped to encourage
a conversation about sexual
assault prevention and recov-

ery.
“First and foremost, we’re
here to raise awareness
about sexual violence not
only on college campuses, but
in our community,” Kozlowski
said. “So I think just being able
to recognize that it is a problem
and it is a problem that every-
one can work on and fix, that is
the overall message.”
Information senior Stepha-
nie Schouman, also a University

Students Against Rape senior
student leader, discussed the
welcoming space they hope to
create with the event.
“Whoever you are or whatev-
er your story or background is
… this is a place where you can
come and be believed, and be
heard, and that there are people
out there who care about you,
and you are never alone in this
fight,” Schouman said.

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Students and community members participate in a rally against sexual violence at the Take Back the Night rally and march at the in downtown
Ann Arbor Wednesday evening.

On Wednesday evening, Hillel’s
Israel Leadership, Engagement,
Advocacy & Dialogue student
group invited Professor Victor
Lieberman to host a lecture in
Hillel’s auditorium to discuss
Israeli-Palestinian
relations.
Lieberman drew largely on the
curriculum of his course, titled
The History of the Arab-Israeli
Conflict, during his discussion,
which was planned in preparation
for the upcoming Israeli election
next week.
Lieberman’s lecture provided
an in-depth background of the
historical
conflict
between
Israelis and Palestinians. His
outline of Israeli and Palestinian
politics spread across many facets
of the issue, from an analysis
of Palestinian popular opinion
and Israel’s political spectrum
to a discussion of the differences
and similarities between the
groups. He provided the audience
with a list of the key parties
and organizations involved to
familiarize the audience with
the political situation in the two
nations.

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Offering donuts, candy and
engaging conversations, the Uni-
versity of Michigan’s Islamic
Society of Ahl-ul-Bayt, along
with the Muslim Students’ Asso-
ciation, hosted a “Meet a Muslim”
table in Mason Hall Wednesday
to open dialogue between Mus-
lim and non-Muslim students
on campus. The event is part of
a series of events hosted by ISA
during their Muslim Engagement
week.
According to Syed Rizvi, ISA
president and LSA junior, the
event was designed to allow non-
Muslim students as well as Mus-
lim students of different sects to

engage in conversations to better
understand different student per-
spectives on campus.
“We want to spread aware-
ness about what Islam is, and an
opportunity with a non-Muslim
to talk with a Muslim and get
familiar with Muslims,” Rizvi
said. “By doing that, people will
feel more comfortable with each
other, but also for other Muslims
to meet other types of Muslims
like Sunnis and Shias can meet
one another. It’s pretty fun meet-
ing new people, people are actu-
ally talking and learning more
about us.”
ISA advisor and LSA senior
Shabber Syed said conversations
about student differences do not
always happen on campus and

are necessary to recognize and
give voices to smaller communi-
ties.
“I feel like sometimes we don’t
have the conversations we should
be having to essentially empower
some of the communities we
have,” Syed said. “I feel like this is
a good way to have people come
up and talk to us, not only to
decrease ignorance but increase
knowledge and empower Mus-
lims and feel like we are here and
people actually want to talk to us
about what makes us different.
You can come talk to us about
anything you want, not necessar-
ily to normalize us only but again
just to let people know its ok to
come ask us questions.”
Another ISA advisor, Fatima

Haidar, said practicing these
interactions with students from
different backgrounds and cul-
tures is key to developing com-
fortable discussion.
“It can go both ways, it can be
either really great or really not. I
used to avoid having these con-
versations but I think when you
become more comfortable with
your identity in a space where
your identity stands out i feel like
it becomes easier to have those
conversations because you begin
to know how to navigate it even if
the other person doesn’t.”
LSA freshman Noelle Seward
visited the table and said hearing
different perspectives helps com-
bat stereotypes about different
students.
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RUCHITA IYER/Daily
University alum Fatima Haider speaks to students the Muslim Student Association and University of Michigan Islamic Society of Ahlubayt
Meet a Muslim table at Mason Hall Wednesday afternoon.

On Wednesday night, about
25 students gathered in the
School of Education for an event
held by Multi-Ethnic Student
Affairs as part of Arab Heritage
Month. The event centered
around Arab masculinity and
mental health.
It was hosted by Robbie
Abdelhoq, a program manager
for
the
Office
of
Student
Conflict Resolution, and Jad
Elharake, a program lead at
the Office for Health Equity
and Inclusion and the Office of
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Abdelhoq began by discussing
the context surrounding the
event.
“We
are
having
this
conversation in the #MeToo
era, in the era in which the
conversation
around
sexual
assault,
sexual
harassment,
behavior of men, the complicity
of men. This is the backdrop to
this conversation,” he said.
Before beginning the formal
presentation, he explained what
he hoped attendees would take
away from the conversation.

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