Voices from Gaza: Stories of Survival and Resilience
The interviews were conducted by Jannah Elgamal and Adam Boumassri. We have assigned pseudonyms to the interviewees to maintain...
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Oct 163 min read
Echoes of Palestine: A Life in the Diaspora
Today’s date is Oct. 7, 2024, and I sit and write this after a day of reflection and stances of solidarity with my fellow GU-Q community....
Gwyneth Estomo
Jun 23 min read
The Persistence of Filipino Folklore
In the 21st century, pragmatic mindsets are the norm. For a person to believe in something, they must be able to see it. However, this is...
Kim Chen
Apr 92 min read
Mid-Autumn Festival and Mooncakes: What the Moon Represents in Chinese Culture
This piece was written on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, September 29, 2023. Perhaps you have heard about this festival from its...
Anupa Khanal
Oct 3, 20223 min read
Transitioning to a New home: Qatar
NEPAL (July 14, 2022) It had been the first time in ages when I woke up neither through an alarm nor my mother shouting at the top of her...
Minahil Mahmud
Oct 3, 20223 min read
What Does it Mean to Love a Place?
I took one sip of the tea and couldn’t help but smile; it tasted exactly like home. “Cardamom, right?” I asked. The man's face broke into...
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Oct 3, 20226 min read
Iran: Culture, Traditions, and Celebrations
Iran, formerly known as Persia, is one of the oldest nations in the world, and its history dates to tens of thousands of years. It is one...
Justin Pacer
Oct 3, 20223 min read
The Parallels of Filipino Culture and The World
The Parallels of Filipino Culture and The World The Georgetown community is so diverse that not one culture stands out alone. Filled with...
Maliha Khan
Dec 8, 20215 min read
Muslim Women Don't Need Your Saving
“You don’t have to wear that thing, you’re free to take it off!” How many times have Hijabi women had to hear that? While the people...
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May 12, 20215 min read
Sustaining Habits during Ramadan
…بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not...
Abdullah
May 12, 20213 min read
God Knows Best
We often feel very sad and lost even for the smallest things: “Why is my life this bad and his good?”, “Why would this happen to me?”, “I...
Shadoof
May 12, 20212 min read
Do Not Despair, My Girl
“Do not despair my girl…” you once told me. “Learn to trust people, learn to love, learn to smile even when it hurts, and always keep...
Shaheer Liaqat
May 7, 20212 min read
Pixels and Decibels: Video Game Songs That Slay
Gone are the days when video games were seen as the province of the few! Whether it’s housewives mixing and matching in Candy Crush or...
Iman Ismail
Apr 5, 20213 min read
On Every Form of Grief
These past two weeks have been a steep rising and steep diving of emotions. What follows is a piece written as the result of this...
Rejoice Onyenagubo
Apr 5, 20213 min read
Fear: The Social Penumbra
The worst thing or maybe best thing about fear is that it is based on our perception of things. Fears are formed from past experiences,...
Maliha Khan
Mar 30, 20211 min read
A Train to Nowhere
I got my ticket I am on my way In the train to nowhere. Got in the economy class The one-seater assigned to one Behind is the local birth...
Shaheer Liaqat
Mar 29, 20213 min read
The Age of Pokémon
We weren’t around back then, but you can still hear the doddering dinosaurs from way back in the late 1990s talk about those glorious...
Anonymous
Mar 29, 20212 min read
The Iraqi Cultural Association
Hello! I’m Noor and I’m in the Iraqi Cultural Association. We’re a new club in Georgetown University in Qatar, and we hope to use our...
Shaheer Liaqat
Feb 23, 20213 min read
Internet of Melancholy: Remembrance of Obsolete Pleasures
In the days when light and goodness reigned and the world’s evils could be sidelined by the blissful ignorance of childhood, boys waited...
Azmeh Zaman
Feb 23, 20214 min read
Parler- Unbiased Social Media?
Just because Facebook and Twitter have banned Donald Trump’s supporters does not mean that they are shut out totally from social media....
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