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I’ve never been a movie buff, mainly because I can never sit still long enough to get through an entire movie without getting restless. Chick…

Have you ever listened to M.I.A’s song lyrics? No, I mean really listened to her songs beyond memorizing “I fly like paper/Get high like planes,” and screaming them as loud as your vocal chords allow as you throw your hands in the hair and do a sort of interpretive dance to the rest of the hook? Maybe you…

A few weeks ago in mid-January the United States celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. We celebrated the birth of a man who embodied the idea of nonviolent resistance, the idea of working toward achieving equality, freedom, and civil rights for all African Americans through peaceful means and moral steadfastness. He lead thousands of African Americans both physically, mentally, and emotionally through one of those most hostile and dangerous times for…

It was exactly a year ago at this time that I was preparing for my study abroad trip for the 2011 spring semester. For two years I had begged my protective Lebanese father to let me travel to a Middle Eastern country to study Arabic and Middle Eastern politics. Being one of the most stable and safe of the region’s…