By Adina Farrukh on April 7, 2010
Karachi, Pakistan can be summed up in two words: insufferable heat. The faint, bitter smell of sweat lingers in the atmosphere; the stifling heat is almost tangible. Clothes cling obstinately to bodies and the feeling of being perpetually filthy prevails, no matter the number of cold showers one takes.
Karachi is also extremely polluted. An “urban [...]
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By Adina Farrukh on March 8, 2010
The idea of a day devoted solely to celebrating and recognizing women’s achievements, International Women’s Day, was first proposed a hundred years ago by Clara Zetkin at the second International Conference of Working Women in Copenhagen, Denmark. This was in the midst of an era of turbulent and changing times in a rapidly industrializing world. [...]
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By Raouf Iqbal on February 19, 2010
Over the past weekend I was fortunate enough to participate in an event that was both inspirational and educational. The event I am referring to was MSA West, hosted at the University of California Davis. After getting through the near 7 even hour drive there my expectations were high. Because after traveling in a car [...]
Posted in Community, Opinion | Tagged 11, brotherhood, intention, irvine11, MSA, MSA West, reflections, stand for the 11, UC Davis, UCD, UCI, UCLA, UMMA
By Adina Farrukh on February 8, 2010
I first picked up Howard Zinn’s A People’s History when I was eleven years old. I had been dared to do so by a friend of mine who declared that if I successfully completed it, I’d go down in history as the biggest bookworm that ever walked the halls of our school.
675 pages of history. [...]
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By Adina Farrukh on January 26, 2010
That Haiti was devastated by a massive 7.0 magnitude earthquake – the largest to strike the small Caribbean nation in more than two centuries – on Tuesday, January 13th, is already well known. Since then, we have been confronted with a veritable deluge of distressing news and disturbing headlines, as the extent of the disaster [...]
Posted in Opinion | Tagged aid, exploitation, Haiti, international aid policy, international involvement, poverty
By Hana Khan on January 19, 2010
History, in my opinion, is useless unless we implement its lessons to our present society. Great leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr., would have struggled and sacrificed in vain if the proceeding generations fail to draw upon the fundamental principles from such historical movements that managed to pull society from the ugly and dark [...]
Posted in Features, Opinion | Tagged Jr., Martin Luther King, Non-Violent Action
By Fatema Kahil on December 26, 2009
By Fatema Kahil
They are indeed infamous: individuals who are always late. It seems that no matter what the circumstance or the occasion, they just can’t appear to be on time. Some even attempt to justify their chronic tardiness with a litany of excuses: traffic on the Interstate-5, a sick relative, or even DNA tuned to [...]
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