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… it at least once a day.” Rackham student Yahya Alami Hafez, a graduate student instructor for Introduction to Arab-American Studies, said Offendum’s presentation showed how current artistic…

… mediums such as rap actually trace back to a long and rich Arab history. Hafez said before each discussion, he shows the class a music video from an Arab region to highlight this connection. “I think…

… culture is a really good entry point to engage student learning,” Hafez said. “Cultural production is political, it’s something that shapes discourse. When folks are studying history, they…

… poems and raps, often prompting the audience to participate by motioning to sing portions of the lyrics. Offendum opened the lecture by rapping “Damascus,” an Arabic poem he strongly identifies…

… student members of the BSU, working on a history of the Black Action movements, asked if those records could be made more available through digitization,” McDonald said. “We prepared a digital edition…

… conversation on Twitter around the experiences of Black students in higher education. The movement staged protests on campus to bring further attention to their cause. According to the…

… 1969 to 1995. The entire collection can be accessed digitally by all University students, researchers, faculty and staff, and to the public in person at the Bentley Historical Library…

… and available online to students, scholars and community members,” Countryman said. LSA senior Kayla McKinney, speaker of BSU, said the group called for digitization of the Bentley records…

… to increase the accessibility of these materials. In addition, McKinney said the project grew out of the group’s desire to call attention to the relations between Black students and the…

… records digitized is important because student activism is often erased in U-M’s diversity effort.” The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com News Friday, October 19, 2018 — 3A MADELINE HINKLEY…

… and first-generation students, La Casa hosted its first joint cultural event with the Arab Student Association, providing their own unique cultural perspectives for prospective…

… underneath, so you can’t really have one single food for it, so we kind of let (the Arab Students Association) run that kind of stuff for us, because their food is really good anyway.” LSA junior Dim…

… students visiting the University. Public Policy junior Arwa Gayar, the director of community action for ASA, said the bond formed between the two organizations at that event was the impetus for…

… “Cultural Crossroads,” which grew to include the Muslim Students’ Association and United Asian American Organizations. “Ever since (the La Casa and ASA event), our communities have been really…

… with other organizations and cultural groups on campus.’” Previous collaborative events between student cultural organizations only involved two different groups, Sandoval said, and La Casa…

… really important, and it was hard, I’ll tell you that right now,” Shaukat said. “The Muslim Student Association, it’s kind of like an umbrella group, and there’s so many different ethnicities…

… Mang, co-external chair for UAAO, agreed solidarity was an important function of the event, saying students of color often become isolated within their own communities. “I would hope that…

…Four years ago, the Black Student Union launched the online campaign #BBUM, or Being Black at the University of Michigan, and gave the University seven days to respond to seven demands…

…. About 200 University of Michigan students, faculty and Ann Arbor residents came to hear Poor speak about her work within San Quentin State Prison, a men’s detention facility in California. At San…

… meeting in Flint. Eucharia Ganda, president of the U-M Flint student body, and Izzy Baer, vice president of U-M Ann Arbor’s Central Student Government, also addressed their student government…

…, documents digitized Bentley Historical Library converts over 66,000 documents from DAAS RACHEL LEUNG Daily Staff Reporter See REGENTS, Page 3A See SYRIA, Page 3A In a blended mix of English, Arabic…

…, spoken word and rap, musician and activist Omar Offendum presented to a group of over 200 students and faculty on Thursday about his experiences as a Syrian-American hip-hop artist. Offendum…

…, which took place during a lecture of the Introduction to Arab-American Studies course at the University of Michigan, touched on themes of loss, political activism and rising xenophobia. Offendum…

… ambiguous dude named Omar prior to 9/11 on campus — people didn’t really necessarily Offendum highlights importance of culture Syrian American rapper performs for more than 200 students and staff…

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… Arab media community that contributed to the suspected motives behind his disappearance. The column comments on the misinformation and lack of information available for Arab citizens due to the…

… caution the world about the free reign afforded to Arab countries when journalists are unable to safely report on their experiences. It’s easy to feel helpless when confronted with issues of…

… presented with an opportunity to effect real change. Khashoggi’s final published paragraph imparted the need for more Arab voices to be elevated in publications through the creation of an…

… independent international forum, aimed at addressing the structural problems affecting Arab societies today. We as an editorial board, wholeheartedly support the creation of such an entity and…

… encourage our readers to support organizations that start initiatives to highlight Arab voices in journalism in the coming years. Regimes are temporary, but culture is durable, and cultural change…

… imperative to facilitate appropriate avenues for change when we can. Khashoggi spent a lifetime dedicated to the cause of illuminating the Arab world for Western readers. The least we can do is help…

… other Arab journalists honor his memory by shining that same light for their own communities. ELIAS KHOURY | COLUMN The GOP assault on America O n Oct. 21, I spent a significant chunk of my Sunday…

…, discrimination, harassment. They’re usually detained for hours and hours, even if you are an American citizen.” The member explained how students of Palestinian or Arab heritage who go on study…

… harassment. The member also spoke about international political blacklists, highlighting the fears many Palestinian, Arab and Pro-Palestinian students have of being placed on a blacklist…

… said they were in favor of extending smoking codes and regulations to products such as vapes and e-cigarettes. “Per CDC data, the number of high school students that used e-cigarettes in the…

…. Central Student Government passed a #UMDivest resolution for the first time in the University’s history in 2017, which was also the first time the body allowed for a secret ballot, which members…

… approved to protect pro-Palestinian students from blacklists. “If you are put on that list and you go through these checkpoints, they’ll pull you out and you’re going to be interrogated, you…

…’ll probably be deported, not allowed in,” the student said. “That’s something that the University has ignored time after time and has not released any statements about, and that’s another thing we…

… result of the walls. She also highlighted the demonstration’s aim to raise awareness of struggles faced by minority students on campus and how the walls are affecting their lives at the University…

… investing in American companies that are profiting off these border walls,” the student said. “We’re still pushing for the University to form a committee to investigate our investments in these…

… manufacturer 18 Sound system component 22 Rendered immobile 23 Student advocacy gp. 24 Ruckus 25 Shake things up 27 Key of Beethoven’s Second Piano Concerto 28 Horseshoe holder 30 Merchant of 10…

…, to say the least 46 Arab bigwigs 48 Bit of tomfoolery 49 Rollicking good time 50 Prom night coifs 51 Dickens bad guy 56 River in western Belgium 58 Org. for pugilists 59 They, in Tours 60…

… experience of watching the University orchestras perform is unlike any other, given that they include fellow students who are also some of the nation’s best orchestral musicians. This coming Sun. at…

… immensely well. The theme will be present in some of the chosen costumes as well as the pieces selected to be played. Historically, the Halloween Concert has been a medium used to connect students to…

… only connects musicians with the audience, but different parts of the audience with each other — students and community,” conductor Kenneth Kiesler said in an interview with The Daily about…

… program to help prepare them for the Brevet, an English-heavy examination all Lebanese students must take to go to high school or vocational schools. Through LEAP, I had the opportunity to connect…

… accessories was donated to the Helping Hands for Relief and Development and Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. They sold stylish items, some with Arabic script, including jewelry saying “Love” and…

… letter for a study abroad trip in occupied Palestine. As a student body, we should take after Cheney-Lippold and refuse to be bystanders complicit in the human rights abuses carried out by Israel…

… tell people my name. To these Americans, my name is a foreign word. Some of my friends have names that can sound foreign. My name is not like that. Arabs will try to say my name the Arabic way but…

… I am not Arab, even though my name is. It is complicated but I like to think my name and me are a cultural juxtaposition. I also struggle in discussion class because I need a few minutes to…

… pass off as American to be in the U.S. So I began becoming proud of saying my name, the way I know how. Not the American way or the Arabic way, but the Malaysian way, and every time during…

… discussion class I can only wait for my American graduate student instructor to ask me the second time how to pronounce my name because it is so foreign to them. What are you: ambiguously brown A…

… 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…

… altogether. But violence is contagious … BDS is the most important global issue for thousands of students on the U-M campus. This nonviolent movement is part of who they are. BDS is not against any…

… and downgraded Arabic from its official language status. Abulhawa then talked about the history of Palestine and Zionism. Seventy years ago, she said, Palestine was a thriving, pluralistic…

… then I’m confident you will also sign on.” In November 2017, for the first time in the school’s history after years of attempts, Central Student Government passed a divestment resolution…

… calling for the University to investigate several companies it had investments in which have contracts with the Israeli military. The Board of Regents later rejected the resolution. One student…

… had originally agreed to write the letters before learning they wanted to study in Israel. “I don’t believe the professors were discriminating against the students,” Abulhawa said. “The…

… those students, but when they learned that these students were applying to a colonial institution, they exercised their conscience not to be party to that.” After these recommendation letter…

… touch by much of the student body. Students responded negatively to the Guide, calling it “out of touch.” Public Policy senior Lauren Schandevel and LSA senior Griffin St. Onge, in collaboration…

… with other student groups, wrote an abridged guide called Being Not-Rich at UM which improved the advice from “So in terms of next steps, where we go from here, I remain determined to provide…

… ST GE N WE E K NATALIE STEPHENS/Daily Students attend the First Gen? First Year? community gathering in a series of 2018 First Gen Week events in Couzens Hall Monday evening. First Gen Week…