Juha-inspired stories written by students in our Intermediate Arabic course.

World Refugee Day States and their figureheads teach us to treat displacement as a force of nature. We are told of "floods" of refugees and "waves" of migration. Unfortunate, natural occurrences that sadly collide with the supposedly neutral, natural terrain of nation-states, borders, and immigration enforcement. But while emigration is indeed natural, nearly universal across human history and animal species alike, the legal category of the "Refugee" is not. It is not a passive byproduct of...

The first Stonewall anniversary march, held on June 28, 1970. The annual march continues to this day. This International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, we refuse to let our struggles be sanitized into matters of understanding and conversation; instead, we continue to wage a relentless fight for gender and sexual revolution. In Hebrew, the acronym for this day is הבנ”ה, pronounced Havana - meaning "understanding." This name is a mistake. Undeniably, as queer people, we...