Author: Zaineb Sharif
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How To Save Yemen
Featured Illustration: Takayo Akiyama for Save The Children The past year has been filled with tragedies across Yemen, as the country has been held victim to the proxy war taking countless innocent lives each day. The war has left millions of people across the country on the verge of famine…
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Am I Lucky?
Featured Image: Mahmoud Abu Zeid Am I lucky I am not American? The guns rattling in my head, The banners, the posters, The Black Lives Matter The kids shaking the country till the government falls to its knees. Am I lucky I am not Yemeni? Constantly fighting the hunger,…
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The Forgotten War In Syria
Featured Illustration: Molly Crabapple As the world continues to struggle fighting the pandemic that has swept us to our knees, many countries like Syria have been facing ongoing battles. The country has been in unrest for a decade, with fighting on its soil every day, as millions of innocent civilians…
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China’s Mass Genocide
Featured Image: Foreign Policy In the past week, a video of a little Uyghur boy being beaten has been circulating around social media. In the video, the boy is being kicked and hit, and in the end, a man is seen putting a lit cigarette in his shirt. This video,…
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The 21st Century Holocaust
Featured Illustration: ABC News Today, the world is still haunted by the Holocaust that took place decades ago in Germany. Pictures flooded with innocent children and broken families shattered millions of hearts across the world. There were nearly six million victims of the brutal atrocities against humanity. This occurred when…
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Privilege as a Person of Color
Featured Artwork: Alice Skinner Scrolling through social media these last few weeks has brought so many things to my attention. I’ve become more aware of the prevalent racist society that we live in, the insensitive laws and history this country has died for, as well as the countless videos and…
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Yemen: Why The World Needs To Wake Up
Yemen, the country once known as the land of the happy and fortunate is far from its pre-existing glory. The Yemeni Civil War is an ongoing war that began back in 2015, between the Yemeni government and the Houthi-led rebels, a coalition backed by the UAE and Saudi Arabia along…