Yassar Dahbour is a Palestinian political activist who was born in a refugee camp in Syria after his family was expelled from Palestine in 1948. Now living in Sacramento, California, he is a founder and board member of the Sacramento ...
The Tennessee ‘Drag Ban’, signed into law by Governor Bill Lee on Mar. 2, 2023, has sparked controversy over its potential violation of First Amendment rights and the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals. In recent years, drag shows have become a ...
LGBTQ rights have undoubtedly progressed within the last decade. As a young college student at a university located in a liberal metropolitan city and a non-denominational Western country, it is easy to be misled. It can be easy to forget ...
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, ...
Nusantara, meaning “archipelago” in Javanese, is what Indonesia announced its new capital will be called — a fitting name, as Indonesia is one of the largest archipelagos in the Indo-Pacific region. As a result, Indonesia not only faces ethnic, religious ...
Throughout our lives, if we’re lucky, we will come across people and experiences that genuinely help us grow and change us for the better. Glimpse was more than luck; it was destiny. I joined Glimpse in 2020 from my apartment ...
With important domestic and foreign policies in Turkey’s horizon, the May 14 elections are of critical importance to Turkey, Europe, the Middle East and global policy at large. Fethi Can Yaşar is the representative of the U.S. youth branch of ...
Since I was a little girl, I’ve spent the winter holidays at my grandmother’s house in Kerala, India. I treasured the early morning walks with my father to the neighborhood ambalam, or temple, breathing in the balmy air as the ...
A common reaction I get to people finding out that I’m a type 1 diabetic is a nodding of their heads and comments about how their grandparents share my ailment. I smile knowingly, often underpinning the significance of this disease ...
For duck you say “antis.” Quack! My earliest memories were spent with my grandma, or my Močiutė. For several years she lived in a vacant room in our basement after emigrating from Lithuania, and that made her my babysitter during ...