A Crime Against Humanity: The Libyan Slave Trade Imtisaal Mian September 3, 2018 News & Social Issues Slavery has been sweeping across Libya under a veil — the slave trade has been occurring for approximately two years with little talk of it outside of U.N. meetings. This issue has been largely ignored after th... Read More...
Young Artists For Syria: Painting the Path to Change Faiza Islam August 31, 2018 News & Social Issues A picture is worth a thousand words — and these young artists have found a story worth telling. Young Artists for Syria (YAFS), led by Aisha Hyder, is a project aiming to bring light to the Syrian conflict thro... Read More...
White Supremacy in Canada Sama Nemat Allah July 9, 2018 News & Social Issues If we close our eyes and block out all the noise, are all the terrible things around us still happening? If we choose to be selective, to see only the good and ignore the bad, are we being optimistic or just na... Read More...
Woke But Not Awake Komal Adeel June 18, 2018 News & Social Issues “Man is born free, yet everywhere he is in chains.” I first read this quote by French Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau in my twelfth-grade history class, and it immediately resonated with 17-year-ol... Read More...
Better Late Than Never Hiba Hashmi June 11, 2018 News & Social Issues With the unfortunate, consecutive disasters happening around the world lately, it is not enough to offer our prayers, our condolences and our immediate relief in times of crisis. With every natural disaster tha... Read More...
Voices of Change: Teens Leading the Charge On Gun Reform Naireen Hussain March 1, 2018 News & Social Issues As of Wednesday February 14th, the Columbine massacre in 1999 was no longer USA’s deadliest high school shooting. Fourteen students and three teachers were killed at a shooting at Majory Stonemann Douglas High ... Read More...
#Thinspiration: Body Image and Social Media Hiba Hashmi February 5, 2018 News & Social Issues In the 21st century, exposure to commercials and social media is unavoidable. If a Kardashian, Jenner or Hadid is not flashing a product at you on a billboard, they will surely appear on your Facebook or Instag... Read More...
Voices of Muslim Women: My Experience at The Ringleaders Panel Saneeya Muneeb December 28, 2017 Food for Thought, News & Social Issues Voices of Muslim Women is a non-profit organization with the goal of enabling Muslim women of all different backgrounds and ethnicities to speak out about their lives, aspirations, and experiences. The organiza... Read More...
Make us as Waves of the Sea: Reflecting on the Faith in Canada 150 Millennial Summit Aisha Hyder July 16, 2017 News & Social Issues “The very best of yourselves includes your faith." On the eve of Canada’s 150th birthday since Confederation, I was in conversation with 74 leaders of different faiths at the Faith in Canada ... Read More...
Beyond the Bench: The New Frontier of Research MY Voice July 14, 2017 News & Social Issues letstalkperiod.ca Stereotypically, when we think of research, we perhaps picture a lab coat-cladded, serious-faced scientist with a microscope, surrounded by bubbling test tubes. If not to that extreme, ‘re... Read More...
