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Opinion

Arash, Melody, & Transnational Youth Identity

November 2, 2011 by Alex Shams

Originally published by Ajam Media Collective on December 2, 2011. Transnational Iranian youth identity today has rather tenuous bonds, a fact lamented by elders who point to language, religion, or

Opinion

Tahrir Comes to Wall Street

October 26, 2011 by Alex Shams

Originally published in the Harvard Crimson. Another world is possible. This was the message carried by the thousands of protesters who swelled New York’s Times Square a little over a

Opinion

A Nail in the Coffin of Liberal Zionism

September 28, 2011 by Alex Shams

Originally published in the Harvard Crimson. President Barack Obama’s speech before the United Nations last Friday was nothing short of a nightmare for the many Americans who had been hoping

Reporting

Qom: Land of samosas and talebe factories

August 31, 2011 by Alex Shams

Originally published on Mashallah News. The first glimpses of Qom are always a let-down. The approach begins about an hour into the journey south on the Tehran-Qom road, when, after

Lebanon Reporting

A community in grief and rage: Nepalese and Lebanese hold vigil for deceased migrant worker

May 22, 2011 by Alex Shams

Published on Hibr in May 2011. A large banner bearing a death announcement fluttered in the wind last Sunday beside an apartment in Jdeideh as some thirty people gathered nearby

Lebanon Reporting

Beirut’s revolutionary space: Martyr’s Square

May 14, 2011 by Alex Shams

Originally published in Mashallah News on May 14, 2011. “Think Lebanese, think secular” The Arab and global audience has borne witness in recent months to massive pitched battles in the central

Lebanon

Quiet but healthy: reflections on Lebanon’s unrecognized Baha’i community

March 22, 2011 by Alex Shams

Published on Hibr in March 2011. In Lebanon, a sectarian system built to represent all of this country’s various faiths means that feeling invisible is a rare thing. Chances are

Arash, Melody, & Transnational Youth Identity

Tahrir Comes to Wall Street

A Nail in the Coffin of Liberal Zionism

Qom: Land of samosas and talebe factories

A community in grief and rage: Nepalese and Lebanese hold vigil for deceased migrant worker

Beirut’s revolutionary space: Martyr’s Square

Quiet but healthy: reflections on Lebanon’s unrecognized Baha’i community

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