My new Syrian friends invited me to dinner in Jordan one night. In their airy white apartment we ate kubba nayeh, a dish native to their village in Idlib, we watched their children play and talked about the war. In…
On April 6, 2016, Muslim Iraqi refugee Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a student the University of California, Berkeley and a Huffington Post blogger, was thrown off a Southwest Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport for speaking his native language of Arabic.…
On Tuesday, March 28, 2017, I am going to be one of the first people in the world to fly from the Middle East to the United States under the new Middle Eastern laptop travel ban. This is the second…
I have spoken to 11 Muslim men - from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel and UAE - about the Trump Muslim Ban. The president's executive order forbids all refugees (most of whom at this point in history are Muslim)…