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The Spectrum: Understanding my international identity at Northwestern

January 10, 2017

“Sometimes I forget you’re an international student. I just see you as an American.” I’ve been told this by numerous friends here at Northwestern and each time, a sense of pride used to grow...

Zeytinoglu: The divergence of modern identities

May 19, 2014

The Western world, educated and brought up with modernism, views the self to be conscious, rational, autonomous and universal; no physical conditions or differences substantially affect how this self...

The Spectrum: Balancing Greek Life and Islam

May 10, 2014

When I came to Northwestern I had to reconcile who I was and who I would become. Duality doesn’t begin to describe my experiences. Rather, my journey has mostly been straddling the slush of gray between...

Gomaa and Darwish: Involvement in Syria not so simple

May 2, 2013

As Arab Americans, we were unsettled by the ideas put forth by Jonathan Kamel’s recent piece on the Syrian conflict. The article’s narrow perspective was laced with skewed pretenses about the current...

Students earn multiple honors at Model Arab League competition

February 28, 2013

A relatively young delegation of Northwestern students won several awards in the regional level of the Model Arab League, a competition in mock international politics. The students represented Egypt...

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