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… 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…

… 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…

… how Arab identities interact in traditional gender roles EMMA RUBERG Daily Staff Reporter See POLITICS , Page 3 Follow The Daily on Instagram: @michigandaily Professor talks Israeli…

… 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…

… 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…

… concerns over sexual misconduct, more should be done by SMTD to address this issue. “I think it will help students feel more comfortable. And that’s an important step to take,” Gerace said. “But I think…

… Ensemble, he said he had heard nothing about this policy from faculty or students around SMTD. “I am baffled by the fact that the music school continues to try and talk about transparency, and even…

…’s help to address issues of sexual justice with courage and action.” SMTD From Page 1 “And many people within GEO hold such positions, so in addition to being GSIs (graduate student instructors…

…), they might have other paid positions that are affected by this … you know, all of us as GSIs as GSSAs, as graduate students taking courses, are part of a broader U of M community. And it…

…’s important for us to show solidarity invested in creating an equitable, safe and inclusive University community.” The working group is a collaboration between GEO and other student organizations…

… communities and our ability to feel welcome on campus.” Public Policy junior Arwa Gayar, the co-president of the Arab Student Association, echoed Muñoz’s sentiments about the convenience of a…

… centrally located Trotter Center. “A lot of the Arab students, when they come together after class, they’re usually in the Fishbowl and last year it would be in the basement of the Union,” Gayar said…

…“It really started decades and decades ago when folks were calling for a new Trotter to recognize Black student rights in general, since the ’70s and ’80s and ’90s,” he said. Collier earned his…

… for students of color. But, like I said, I always mention the Black student organizations because Trotter started off as the Black house and then it moved to the multicultural center. I just want…

… to make sure that this remains a house and a safe space for Black students here on campus.” This sentiment of paying homage to those who came before was a common thread in many of the words…

… Thaddeus R. Harrison, the only student activist with a criminal conviction for his role in BAM that has not been overturned. Student activism has been a driving force for the prosperity of these…

… movements, and these efforts are apparent in the construction of the Trotter Center’s space. During all steps in the process of the Trotter Center’s design and planning of its architecture, student…

… McKinney and Secretary Camyrea Barnes. Barnes spoke of the tireless, accumulative efforts of Black students who have fought for a space to share their experiences. “I’m speechless. My heart is…

… full right now. Just knowing the work and the efforts that many of the Black students on this campus have been putting into for 50 years now, and now that it’s being fulfilled, it’s like a full…

… circle of life. It’s up for the future generation of Black students to keep the momentum going.” E. Royster Harper, vice president for student life, reiterated this in her speech to the packed…

… Conference Room of the Stanford Lipsey Student Publications Building Wednesday. “It has been 18 years since the war began … there is no end to this war,” Sukhanyar said. “What is going on? You don’t see…

… portrayed. They explained academic writing on masculinity has often been written by and for white men and why this is problematic when discussing Arab masculinity. “That conversation really…

… transitions and does a shift when it comes to Arab men, and this is also true for other men of color,” Elharake said. “Even as I think about myself, I was born in Lebanon and immigrated here when I was…

…’s commonly assumed that men act masculine for women, the opposite is true; men often act masculine around men to be accepted. Abdelhoq and Elharake explained how Arab identity interacts with both…

… masculinity and femininity, offering examples of traditional gender roles in Arab families. “We see this even thinking about our roles in our families — who cooks, who cleans, who eats where?” Elharake…

… asked. “At least in my experience, often Arab men are allowed to go out past a certain time and often Arab women have to be back by six or seven.” Abdelhoq pointed out this inequality has been made…

… said. “I think inherently and intuitively you’re going to know this when it happens, it’s having the courage to say something about it.” Elharake offered similar advice for students, both for…

… those who identify as Arab men and those who do not. “We think about spaces that we’re in — small classrooms and large ones — a lot of comments are really thrown out that promote or encourage this…

… as well. It’s really important to recognize masculinity has an impact on everyone.” Business graduate student Rajiv Khattar attended the event, and in an interview with The Daily after…

…. “Then we talk about the Arab identity, there’s a lot we could talk about. Then we add mental health. It’s understanding all these individual identities take on a slightly different flavor with…

… various Arabic courses at the 100 and 200-levels throughout her college experience. Like Arabic language students across the nation, Khokhar and others in the University of Michigan’s Department of…

… year talks strategies, hopefulness Last panel focuses on ways to encourage reform in criminal justice system Students, AEI host live taping of podcast CAMPUS LIFE ‘Ordered Liberty’ records…

… photo Engineering grad Katie Bouman produced method to create historic image EMMA STEIN Daily Staff Reporter LSA sophomore Nisreen Khokhar is currently enrolled in Arabic 402 and has taken…

… Middle East Studies currently go back and forth about whether or not the University should be teaching Modern Standard Arabic or informal Arabic dialects, like Egyptian or Levantine. “Honestly, I…

…, while Ammiya is most Arab speakers’ vernacular. Between 2006 and 2009, enrollment in Arabic language programs grew by 47 percent across U.S. universities, sparking increased debate about…

… whether to teach colloquial Arabic dialects in addition to MSA. Currently in the department, the first two years of coursework are focused on both MSA and dialect, but the curriculum shifts…

…Opinion The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com 4 — Wednesday, April 4, 2019 Erik Nesler can be reached at egnesler@umich.edu. FINNTAN STORER Managing Editor Stanford Lipsey Student Publications…

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… investigation for corruption, he demonizes Israel’s press and legal system. In a previous election, he demonized Israeli Arabs by telling voters that Israeli Arabs were “heading to the polling stations in…

… ideal, where the land serves as a homeland for both Israelis and Palestinians under one state. There is nothing innate that prevents Jews and Arabs or Jews and Muslims from living among each other…

…. Jews lived in the Arab world for centuries, facing far less persecution than in Christian Europe for most of history. Maimonides, arguably the most important rabbi in Jewish history, left Spain to…

… escape the inquisition and went to the Ottoman empire, where Arab Muslim rationalists influenced his rabbinical thought, thus influencing Judaism. And in America, Jews and Arabs live side by side. No…

…, when the dictator of Egypt swore to drive the Jews to the sea in service of Pan-Arabism. There were decades of PLO terrorism, the intifada suicide bombings, followed by Hamas terrorism today…

…’s important role in the upcoming election. In the first meeting of the Ninth Assembly, the University of Michigan Central Student Government elected 15 members to different positions on the new…

… running for the position. “I want to do this because I want to serve the other (School of Education) students because, like myself, they wouldn’t have gotten represented in this body,” Keuning…

… said. “I like to hold high the democratic values that Central Student Government also holds up (and) to represent my fellow students and to serve them, just as you do to your classmates…

… represent the school through CSG. “I am an Afro-Arab American who was born and raised in Ann Arbor to immigrant parents, so I was raised to be a Wolverine,” Elshafei wrote. “Truthfully, it was a…

…The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com Michigan in Color Monday, April 8, 2019 — 3A Dearborn, Michigan is the epicenter of Muslim/ Arab American culture. It is a microcosm of the Middle East with…

… people from every Arab country (i.e. Lebanon, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, etc). There is such a diverse presence of nationalities and cultures that all contribute their own…

… in the age of Trump against Muslims and Arabs, we are still unable to recognize each other as allies. The reason I wanted to write this article is not to call anybody out, but to recognize the…

… with numbers all the time –– and it might not seem like a bad thing for people to assume this, but looking at the bigger picture, the model minority myth hurts rather than helps Asian students. The…

… students are put into a box, it can hurt how we perceive ourselves in the college admissions process –– this was definitely an issue I struggled with a year ago as a senior in high school. I was a good…

… student in high school and cared very much about the classes I was interested in, was involved in a ton of extracurricular activities, and was (and still am) passionate about writing. But my…

… that I had to get above a certain score to get into more selective schools and furthermore because of my race and people’s predisposed assumptions about what “kind” of student I was supposed to be…

…. My parents told me that I had to be twice as good as everyone else (namely my white peers) to get into these selective universities, because the competition among Asian students, who are all…

… vicious circle in which Asian students feel pressured by the existing stereotype that they have to have perfect grades and standardized test scores to stand a chance against everyone else of…

… white boys and one Vietnamese girl, all within a high school class of 450 where I could count all the Asian students on my hands. I didn’t believe him at all. However, as parents often are, he…

… workers, the artists, the teachers, and the students (what’s) needed to galvanize international attention and work to create institutions and policies that will welcome refugees,” Kutmah said…

… the ukulele and Mang leading a student organization event. Alsubee said the film was directed with interview format to allow the individuals showcased to tell their own story. “The idea was to…

… history. Ali talked about breaking barriers as an Arab female in aerospace engineering, and how this discipline has made her consider herself a citizen of the world. After the film, the event…

… Michigan Interactive Investments, MII,” Coffie said. “That club has been very finance-focused, very markets- focused. These are things that, if a student hasn’t been exposed to it prior to college or…

… Impact Investing Group, discussed how student organizations can alleviate stress by offering members a comfortable space to explore their budding career interests. Ong said the culture fostered…

… students navigate that area,” Ong said. “I think it really depends on the culture that the club is creating and how they are approaching the situation to support students rather than adding more…

… feels as if it stops students from having a more traditional college experience. . “I don’t get to spend that much time hanging out, like I feel a young college kid is supposed to be doing, because…

… I am looking forward to my career,” Coffie said. “But the sacrifice is an investment that we have to make … Students are spending so much time recruiting and doing this recruiting prep that they…

… are not studying as much, not enjoying life and the college experience as much” Julie Kaplan, embedded Counseling and Psychological Services counselor in the Business School, said students…

… who are unsure of their career path typically experience more stress throughout this process. “The students that I talk to who are recruiting for investment banking and finance, or who aren…

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… under fire. The same features that cause outcry now inspired optimism following the Arab Spring. A successful solution could not merely limit functionality, as that would ignore the capacity for…

… her career on hold for us. While reflecting on my mother’s selflessness that has allowed me to succeed, I have come to realize that this idea of sacrifice is a common theme among Arab Americans and…

… first semester at the University. As a new student pursuing mathematics, he said studying Arabic gave him the opportunity to think in ways his other classes didn’t allow. Currently, Hughes is taking…

…,” Alsayegh said. “You are going to find this debate in every Arabic program. So which one do our students prefer— dialect or standard? So it is normal and even in (different) countries we have this…

… curriculum is to help students achieve proficiency in the Arabic language. According to Hagen, the mixed curriculum began at the University in 2012, with the hopes that students would gain the skills…

… emotional and impactful for me to know that so many students, so many people that have gone before us have fought for this space on campus.” Read more at MichiganDaily.com Read more at Michigan…

… from Washtenaw Avenue rep- resents collaboration and mul- ticulturalism among a variety of student groups. “What we saw in recent months is a collective of stu- dent groups where before everyone…

… was in their own silos,” Cardona said. “That to me is the students saying, ‘Let’s just work together and really for the greater good.’ I think that will be a lasting impres- sion. I hope students…