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…, 2021 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com MICHIGAN IN COLOR Read more at michigandaily.com “Dear Susan Muaddi Darraj, My name is Reem Hassan, and I am a first-year undergraduate student at the…
… University of Michigan- Ann Arbor. I identify as a Muslim Palestinian American woman, and I am currently studying on a pre- law track with hopes of majoring in public policy and minoring in Arab and Muslim…
… our first reading. I explicitly remember feeling as though you had taken my thoughts on the intersection of my Arab identity on my feminist experience straight out of my head and put it on paper. I…
… felt heard. Your short piece had the ability to influence my work for the rest of that semester and inspired me to take my understanding to new and deeper levels and enroll in our Arab American…
… excerpt taken from one of the first “Feminist Love Letters” I wrote last semester while taking an Arab American Feminists course with Professor Charlotte Karem Albrecht — an absolute icon in the…
… Darraj, who authored “It’s Not an Oxymoron: The Search for an Arab Feminism.” **** Although I have always considered my feminist awakening as something deeply personal, I have come to learn that…
… many other Arab American women empower themselves in a similar experience. It is an experience where we constantly question the grounds upon which we are allowed to call ourselves feminists, where…
… have the right to articulate. In all truth, “Middle Eastern” (in quotations because the phrase is a colonial invention that I am not exactly fond of) or Arab women are not exactly regarded as the…
… a vast difference between the backgrounds of the students who were enrolled in the course and how that influenced the ways in which they absorbed and comprehended the course material. I…
… found myself engaged in productive conversation with students of color more than I did with the white students in the course. During the weekly discussion sections where we would share individual…