Celebrating Multiracial Heritage

Participants: senior Rachel Nelson (RN) sophomore Coralie Tyler (CT) sophomore Reg Eva Bod (EB) In terms of multiracial identity, how do you identify? RN: I’ve started identifying as “Not Black, Not White” or maybe just “Not”. Most of my life I identified as black and white. CT:  I was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. Raised between […]…Continue Reading Celebrating Multiracial Heritage

Trapped in the ’70s, Dreaming about the ’40s: What about Tomorrow?

I’d like to write this entry in a slightly less belligerent tone that usual. Not that I think it will offend anyone in particular, but because I should really practice calming down once in a while. Lebanon will soon be remembering the 35th anniversary of the beginning of its disastrously famous civil war (April 13th), […]…Continue Reading Trapped in the ’70s, Dreaming about the ’40s: What about Tomorrow?

Identity Prospecting

In the latest step in the on-going conflict over memory-rights and the Holy Land, Benjamin Netanyahu decided today to include two shrines located in the West Bank – among them the Cave of the Patriarchs – in the list of Israeli national heritage sites. For those of you unfamiliar, the Cave of the Patriarchs is […]…Continue Reading Identity Prospecting

Doha To Be Capital of A Dream

This morning I stumbled upon an old edition of The Economist – which I do not typically read – from July, treating on an topic that is occasionally forgotten: Arab nationalism. The article was entitled “The Arab World Wakes,” and went on to treat the Arab world as if it were a functioning whole of […]…Continue Reading Doha To Be Capital of A Dream