May Minouche Shafik be remembered as the Hosni Mubarak of this moment.

My friend Hassan Naveed, Director of the hate crimes prevention unit at NYC City Hall, was fired by the Adams regime w/no explanation. Sources close to the firing say it was because he didn’t sufficiently push back against protestors of the Mayor’s iftar. nydailynews.com/2024/04/26/nyc…

Where’s U of Chicago’s Agnes Callard? She’s a public intellectual, a defender of free speech, an opponent of “cancel culture,” and critiques how “bullying” reduces the exploration of ideas. Surely she will have something to say about Emory’s chair of philosophy getting arrested

A new Palestinian diaspora has emerged over the last six months. Around 100,000 Palestinians, predominantly from Gaza's small middle class, are now in Egypt. They are living without formal status and without support from any state, international, or UN entities.

barely a month later and israeli forces have murdered Dr. Refaat’s newborn grandchild, along with Refaat’s daughter (the baby’s mother) Shimaa and her husband in an airstrike. generations gone in a moment.

Refaat wrote “If I Must Die” for Shimaa.

الله يرحمهم ويتقبلهم من الشهداء

I asked Joseph E. Stiglitz, longtime Columbia University scholar and Nobel-winning economist, what the establishment doesn’t understand about what campus protesters are trying to say.

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Thank God: Congestion Pricing Will Start on June 30 in New York City, M.T.A. Says nytimes.com/2024/04/26/nyr…

There’s an unwell lady on the subway saying “Be careful, Muslim guys are stealing people’s chains. They are here pretending they want the American Dream. Watch out for them.” Just keep your head down and finish your tea Asad you have a job to get to 😂😭😂😭

Cannot recommend Asad’s tours enough. Check him out if you’re an educator!

I went into the Civil War movie expecting a film about, you know, the causes and consequences of a civil war and the drama of it, and instead got a movie about edgy conflict reporters and photojournalists? If you’re into the latter, this is your movie. Otherwise you can skip.

Do yourself a favor and book a NYC tour with Asad.

The world’s greatest city with someone who knows it better than anyone I know

I promised you I’d bring you to safety; I promised you I would get you a place to call home instead of the one they destroyed. I said I would get you to enroll in a new university instead of the one they bombed.

But I failed, habibti, I failed miserably; I wish I were instead…

American cultural influence is on the decline, they said.

“In the face of the enemy’s brutality that normalized all sorts of direct and indirect killings, we praise God as our judge and our refuge, even if we don't get much-needed justice on this earth, we will certainly do so in the afterlife.”