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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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life as journalist 
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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