Tag: politics
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‘When Sudan bleeds, we all bleed’: UMD students mark three-year anniversary of war, genocide in Sudan
By: Rumaysa Drissi and Sumaya Abdel-Motagaly Content warning: this article contains mention of sexual violence. Sudanese flags stood upright, lining the grass across the borders of Hornbake Plaza. Chalk messages, calling for an end to the war and demanding more attention to the conflict covered the stone ground. To commemorate the third year since the…
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Bread and bullets: A ‘Palestine 36’ review
I must begin with a confession. If you asked me about the nitty gritty details of the Palestinian history as it explains the state of Gaza and the West Bank today, I would not be able to answer. History of the Middle East is something that for my entire life has been filtered through the…
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UMD MSA hosts charity week, reflects on importance of giving back
The University of Maryland’s Muslim Student Association (MSA) held its first charity week of the 2025 fall semester from Oct. 20 to Oct. 24 as part of a larger initiative in partnership with Islamic Relief and several other Muslim Student Associations at universities across the United States. With daily events, charity week highlighted collective student-led…
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Uyghur students speak out about China’s genocide, building community in US
Over hundreds of thousands of Muslims are imprisoned in China’s concentration camps, according to Amnesty International. Among them is Hadija Yahya’s uncles, whom she has never been able to contact. “We don’t have any relatives in the US,” the freshman biology major, who is of Uyghur descent, said. “My uncles are in concentration camps.” Who…
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Afghan girls’ education relied on USAID. Now, it’s at risk of shutting down.
On a frigid Tuesday afternoon, maintenance crews removed the silver-coated letters from the organization’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. This wasn’t just signage being taken down from a federal building — it was the erasure of a symbol imprinted on thousands of tents, bags of food, and humanitarian resources that millions across the globe relied on…
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Palestine’s struggle: A history and context of Israel’s occupation
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed at least 46,600 Palestinians, over half of whom are women, children, and the elderly, over the past 15 months. Sources such as the Yale School of Public Health suggest the true death toll may be higher. A conservative estimate from The Lancet, a medical journal, indicates that over 186,000…
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