Post Tagged with: "iraq"

13Sep
2011

Growing up Muslim in Post 9/11 America: Finding My Way

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Al-Talib interviews Salmon Hossein on his experience growing up as an Afghan American post 9/11. Hossein is a recent UCLA graduate who is now pursuing a Masters of Public Policy at Harvard University.

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12Sep
2011

Growing up Muslim in Post 9/11 America: Lies our Media Told Us

The most challenging experience was having to listen to all of the fear-mongering rhetoric from the media that permeated the education system. When I was 11, I argued with my class (including my teacher) that it would be wrong to invade Iraq claiming that there were no weapons of mass destruction.

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19Apr
2010

Hidden brutality in Iraq

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It has been seven long years since the United States first invaded Iraq as part of the so-called Global War on Terror and it is the occupation’s continued duration that has caused it to recede somewhere into the fringes of American consciousness. Indeed, it is not at all uncommon for people to forget – if only for a moment – the fact that America is still involved in Iraq. For those who do remember, the scale of the macabre violence [...]

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