Oman Journals

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Monday, November 3, 2014

Dear Readers, I've Moved to Wordpress

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Dear beloved readers, I've decided to switch over from this blog to Wordpress (the new link is http://orbala.wordpress.com ) - main...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Saving Fish from Drowning

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Because this reminds me of Zakir Naik (and our other "leaders" who are actually misleading our people): A pious man explained...
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Saturday, October 11, 2014

Why Malala Yousafzai Deserved the Nobel Peace Prize - and stop oversimplying her story, folks.

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Beloved readers, This post has been moved to my new blog over at Wordpress. It can be accessed here: Why Malala Yousafzai Deserved the Nobel...
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Friday, October 3, 2014

Pashtun Personality of the Week: Bushra Gohar, A Remarkable Leading Politician

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Dear readers, The post has been moved to my Wordpress blog. Please click below to access it. Pashtun Personality of the Week: Bushra Gohar...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Keep calm and read qrratu's blog.

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'nuff said, no?
Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Discrimination hurts us all.

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Seriously, tho ... Discrimination hurts all of us. I have a bus driver who often refuses to stop the bus for Hispanic (and I presume o...
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Sunday, September 28, 2014

Short film - "Freedom Journalism Award, Best Photo"

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I love short films and just got reminded of this one. Seriously one of the most beautiful, most haunting, most moving short film ever produ...

Why instill "inferior" qualities in our daughters and "superior" ones in our sons?

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Pre-Script: This is not at all to suggest that I believe masculinity is superior to femininity. The post below is actually a response to ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2014

Music makes me happy, and singing empowers me.

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YOU GUYS!!! I'm going to be singing again at our Middle Eastern ensemble this semester again, inshaAllah!! BIG, BIG GRINS!! hamdallah. ...
Friday, September 26, 2014

This beautiful song by Shafiq Mureed

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Okay ... kindly take the next 4 minutes and 49 seconds and listen to this song and feel hopeful about the world again. So much love!! It...
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Thursday, September 25, 2014

The claim that Malcolm X was a "black supremacist," racism against blacks, and white privilege

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As I've mentioned previously , I'm TA'ing a class on Black History called The Black Power Movement. It's one of the most po...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Judith Stacey's "Can There be a Feminist Ethnography?"

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Because this article was awesome (I wasn't convinced by her argument, but it's still useful, relevant, and important). "C...