… metal musician and university student studying Arabic, he’s an enigmatic figure, and online videos showing him emphatically reading the affirmations only add to his mystique. Over video chat, he…
… to take part in ironic positivity The affirmations are so specific to their cam- pus that they don’t make sense to non-students. “The rats in Ldub are my friends,” reads a post from a @yale…
… entire life, I am not entirely fluent in Arabic. There has always been a twinge of shame underlying that fact, breeding a strange sense of inadequacy in me. No matter how much I’d like for…
… pronunciation of Arabic words, distinctly marking me as an imposter when communicating with my friends who spoke the language with ease. They watched as I struggled with the complex inflections that the…
… woman, but I prefer reading auc- tions featuring other straight women to those which advertise men. And, good God. These women are Stanford students, K-Pop trainees turned Google interns who…
… joined enough student organiza- tions, I never picked up enough skills, I never lost enough weight. The amazing women who get auctioned off on S.A.D. and amass thousands of likes make me feel terrible…
… about 70% of the references made in the student group chat! So I sat. I sat and watched. And within those three hours, the abhorrent sexism was physically nauseating — I probably had to pause and…
… change the way you look at the world around you. For instance, Urdu is a mix of Persian, Turkish and Arabic, and so it borrows many phrases from each contributor. Urdu is also the official language…
… normally “thank you.” It is either “Jazakallah,” which in Arabic roughly translates to “May God reward you with goodness,” or when coming from an adult, is usually a small statement of a wish. When I…
… importance of a liberated Palestine. Introduction Saturday, May 15 marked the annual commemoration of the Nakba (Nakba is the Arabic word for “catastrophe”). Since 1948, the ongoing Nakba has…
… such as the right to own property or vote — and relentless weaponization of international aid in support of Israel. Much of academia, from students to scholars, dismisses the oppression endured by…
… sisters blasted Nancy Ajram (only one of the most iconic Arabic singers) in the living room while my brothers played video games and my mother tried to remain ahead of of the disaster the kitchen…
… things that puzzled me is how students behaved in the classroom. The Ominous Red Button The Power of Storytelling From Boxed Cakes to Confections REEM HASSAN MiC Columnist ANDY NAKAMURA Mi…
