Articles By: Asmar Ghani

22Feb
2012

Doing Our Part to Help the Syrians

The Syrian Arab Republic wrestled its independence from France in 1946. Syria, today, is a country of approximately 23 million of our brothers and sisters who seek a similar goal, but this time from a more domestic malignancy.

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3Feb
2012

Student Issues: Prioritizing our Spiritual and Physical Health

As we enter into the furious storm of Midterms, Papers, and Projects known innocently as Weeks 4, 5, and 6, I’d like to give everyone a small piece of advice.

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29Dec
2011

The Cost of War: Real Numbers, Real Losses

The War in Iraq has ended, the War in Afghanistan continues on, and the War on “Terror” will never end because that’s just not possible. Take a look at what this one war in Iraq has cost to both Iraqis and Americans.

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27Dec
2011

The Good and Bad of Islamophobia

Islamophobia quite literally (and linguistically) is a fear of Islam and Muslims; albeit, an intense, irrational fear of Islam and Muslims. Some Muslims hold that Islamophobia is a good thing. Why? How could fear of Islam benefit Islam?

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2Dec
2011

Visiting a Youth Detention Center: A Humbling Experience

The drive up to Camp Fred Miller is a long, slow uphill trudge. You wind through the hills of Malibu, going higher and higher until the neighborhoods below you look like plots of land and grass nestled in the mouth of one giant valley. When you get to Camp Miller and step out of the car, you notice two things.

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28Oct
2011

Criticisms on How We React to a Tyrant’s Death

On October 20th  a dictator, a tyrant, an oppressor was defeated, captured, and killed. His death is not a shock to most of the world, it was inevitable–just as it is for us all. However, the presumed manner of his death, along with the supposed occurrences after his death, cast a sliver of disappointment among some of the supporters of the revolution who consider the circumstances of and the reaction to his death as a faux pas. The revolution can, in [...]

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19Oct
2011

Breaking the Cycle: A Closer Look into the Incarceration System

The American incarceration system has made it a point to imprison people, bar them from outside contact, isolate them from society and bunch them together to have “tea-parties”. Meanwhile, they fail to provide them with proper rehabilitation programs and a safe environment to foster development and change.

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