I made these Eid cards for the Eid after Ramadan in 2023. I didn't think they looked all that special, but everyone I sent them to did! That was so nice. They said, woah, were did you get those? How did you make them? Well, it was very simple. The flowers in middle are from… Continue reading Eid cards
I went to a talk by "legendary" designer Bruce Mau. I had never heard of him, but apparently, he's a big deal. He told us that he had even redesigned Mecca, the holiest city in Islam. I thought, wow, that's cool. The authorities there asked for his help after a stampede during the Hajj killed… Continue reading Bruce Mau did not redesign Mecca
When I was a Ph.D. student, I got "the talk" quite often from family members, telling me that my online presence was going to be "problematic". Not because there were pictures of me doing drugs or anything. But because I was writing an opinion column for the Daily Tar Heel (the nation's finest university paper),… Continue reading A cautious online presence for a PhD student?
Very early this year, before coronovirus upended things and before the Black Lives Matter protests, one of the big pieces of news and talk was that book, American Dirt. I know, seems forever ago! Hardly a blip now! American Dirt was disliked for the way the white author had portrayed the Mexican characters, and I… Continue reading Linda Holeman
A long, long time ago -- 2012 to be exact! -- I read an article in the Huffington Post. It was a somewhat whiny article, I thought, and it was in response to some sort of uproar about Muslims in America happening at the time (though there have been so many uproars, I don't even… Continue reading Finding a Syrian-Danish-American online
This was the day after the attack, so August 11. I think I first read this article on the BBC: Norwegian shooting probed as terror attack. I think what stands out in the article is if you scroll down to almost the bottom, and it starts talking about reactions from Norway's Muslims: The shooting has… Continue reading Compare: how different countries reported on the Oslo mosque shooting
This was my third article for The Daily Tar Heel: "We fell in love in a hopeless place." If you go to my "writing" page, you will see that it's one of my favorite articles that I wrote. I wrote it during a pretty stressful time; and I wrote and re-wrote and crafted every word… Continue reading “We fell in love in a hopeless place”
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