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… have instilled me with anger, moved me with passion and inspired me to become an active part of the stories around me. Being a part of the Michigan Community Scholars Program and the Arab Student…

… through college as an Arab-American, Muslim woman. Coming to the University from my predominantly Arab/Muslim city of Dearborn has been an awakening experience. I have been challenged and changed…

… more confident in doing so. Hopes of learning the stories and struggles of other brave and bright students of color, all with unique experiences and stories waiting to be heard. Hopes of helping to…

…. Shows like “Family Matters” proved there was a market for loving a non-white history. However, it never seemed like Arab history was profitable enough to make the cut. Though my family went…

… was never white, so I still faced problems with being a person of color. Growing up, I felt that being Arab or American were two mutually exclusive concepts because we act like they are. That is…

… what lead me to Michigan in Color. The Arab culture that I have been surrounded by my entire life is important to me, and I wanted to express its significance while helping others do the…

… same. This is my first step to creating my own quilt which I lost many years ago, or maybe it’s finding the blanket I never knew existed. For me, I may not be actively involved in the Arab…

… community, but I am still Arab and American. Every day, I used to watch Nick at Nite and see people of varied skin tones, but none of those skin tones were mine. Even today, I don’t think I have any…

… Arab-American idols that are represented in media. It’s easy to sell your culture in exchange for a job, to buy that fancy VCR or social acceptance. However, it starts with me to pick up the thread…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Thursday, November 8, 2018 — 3A VETE R ANS WE E K RUCHITA IYER/Daily Ahmed Hamadi, Marines Corp NROTC Senior Advisor, shares his experiences as an Arab…

… students who thought they had registered online. Many of them, Beaudry said, declined to complete provisional ballots. “So, a lot of those students then, we were told, were unwilling to sign the…

… registered to vote and something happened, whether that’s a clerical error, lost paperwork, but that you did register and we don’t have the record.” Beaudry also guessed one reason students may have had…

… lecturer. Molengraff explained one of the challenges of being first-generation is describing experiences to those who do not share the same identity. “While not all students translate from one…

…- generation student. He discussed his experience growing up homeless after his parents split and were sent back to Mexico, not being able to return for 10 years. Parada was allowed to stay in the…

…. “To me, these things were not hurtful because I was a kid,” Parada said. “I was a young student who was just looking at the positive things in life … It didn’t hit me until a couple of years where…

… listen,” Parada said. Parada realized the experiences he faced as a first- generation student were unique to him and emphasized a need to not homogenize student experiences and identities. “Some…

… students may not have grown up with planned vacations or famous authors or book titles on top of their heads or were given NPR radio stations when they were younger,” Parada said. “My question…

… to you is when was the last time you assumed an experience of a student and how can you begin noticing these assumptions before engaging in those conversations?” The symposium then broke into a…

…, discussed concerns of overwhelming students with information as they arrive to campus. “What we worry at orientation is we could tell you, ‘Here’s the pathway to the pot of gold at the end of the…

… realized how different my sisters and I were from my cousins. They always refer to us as Americans, because we don’t entirely fit into their culture. We prefer English music to their Arabic music, and…

… once walking to class when I heard two voices behind me talking about how many Arabs (people of Middle Eastern origin) are boaters (derogatory term for immigrant) and don’t understand English. I…

… student-run organization that works to empower and make leaders of students from underrepresented minorities on campus. This organization welcomes each of its members like family, which is truly an…

… hard to do as I was the only Black person in the class that day. This blurred the line between having a fruitful conversation and taking the role of “educating” the other white students in my class…

…, as all the white students would inevitably look to me as the definite stance of who deserves to say the word. Besides obvious reasons of not having to be a spokesperson for my race, I could not…