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…-generation college student and an Arab- Muslim woman, I quickly realized that, as I sank into my seat in the corner of that auditorium in the Chemistry Building, the odds weren’t really in my favor…

… Safawi Ashley Zhang Sam Weinberger FINN STORER Managing Editor 420 Maynard St. Ann Arbor, MI 48109 tothedaily@michigandaily.com Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since…

… signed articles and illustrations represent solely the views of their authors. EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERS What the Empowered Arab Sisterhood has done for me MARIA ULAYYET | COLUMN C ulture shock. For…

… school, a moment I had been waiting for for years, had been so discreetly stolen away from me. As both the oldest child and oldest girl in my Arab immigrant family, going away for college had…

… been out of the question until my junior year. My parents told me if I could get into a good school, I could move out for college. Seeing my hard work as a student go to waste was my greatest…

… — better known as the Empowered Arab Sisterhood — the first and only nationally recognized predominantly- Arab sorority. Nearly a year and a half later, with my 14 sisters by my side, I can…

… the space I never knew I needed, but in reality, I was drowning without it. As Arab women, many of us the daughters of immigrants, our presence of simply being at the University of Michigan…

… is stigmatized. For me, a lot of Arab women from my hometown either didn’t go to college or went to local schools. Going away was almost always out of the question. Simply being at Michigan…

…: the network. One of EAS’s many purposes is to fill this gap. By bringing together the most ambitious and passionate Arab women leaders on campus, it is creating a network of young…

… other up and helping each other reach their academic and professional goals. We want to break the stigma against Arab women in leadership roles. Throughout my life as an Arab woman, I…

… within the 3). And also, of those three characters, two of them were villains. Which was a nice change from having people of color fulfill the racist villain tropes in movies (i.e. Arab terrorists…

…? Sometimes it feels as if I have to con- stantly prove that I am competent enough to sit in the same class as other students. Coming out of high school I knew that there would be some challenges I would…

… work ten times harder can be discouraging. However, one thing I continue to remember as I walk around campus and see other students that have similar stories to my own is that we are still here. We…

… even more important, as a black woman, I am even more motivated to do well because not only do black students make up about 4 percent of the population at the Uni- versity of Michigan, but the…