Sarra Hussien

Sarra Hussien

Sarra Hussien (she/her) is a senior at the University of Southern California majoring in Political Science and Psychology and the current president of Glimpse from the Globe. On campus, Sarra is a member of Delta Phi Epsilon, serves as the Assistant Director of External Relations and Under-Secretary-General of Programming for USC’s Model United Nations team, Assistant Director of External Finance for Moot Court, Director of Design for Glimpse from the Globe, an undergraduate researcher for the Near Crisis Project, Associate Editor for Southern California International Review, and a member of the Thematic Option Honors Program. She is specifically interested in democracy, global conflict, and human rights as it pertains to the Middle East and Africa. When she is not writing, she spends time with friends, naps at the beach, and checks things off her LA bucket list.

“I Was Auctioned off by Hindu Nationalists”: The Fate of a Prominent Muslim Activist 4 Years After the Anti-CAA Protests

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Challenging Hindu Nationalism: The Work of Indian Americans for Human Rights

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Unraveling Secularism: The Rise of Islamophobia and ‘Love Jihad’ in Modi’s India

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What’s Happening in Sudan?

Conflict in Sudan erupted following a period of rising tensions between two military leaders: General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, commander of the Sudanese Armed Forces, and General Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo, the leader of the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group.  The situation has ...

Tunisia’s Reversion to Autocracy

The Arab Spring, a series of anti-government uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa in the early 2010s, aimed to address long-standing grievances against the region’s most entrenched authoritarian regimes. While the string of revolutions resulted in modest political, ...

The Human Cost of War: The Syrian Refugee Crisis

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The Education Crisis in Yemen

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