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Separate and Unequal: Is State’s Support to Elite Universities a Human Rights Violation

23/06/201928/11/2019Prof. SouaiaiaLeave a Comment

By Ahmed E Souaiaia* Abstract: On May 11, 2019, the US federal government indicted 50 individuals, charging them with bribery and fraud in a widespread college admission scandal involving wealthy parents, coaches, administrators, and business executives, paying bribes to buy their children’s way into the nation’s elite schools. For weeks thereafter, the public discourse had […]

Jonathan Eig’s hit job on the character and legacy of Muhammad Ali

22/09/201819/10/2018isrLeave a Comment

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The Depravity of Racism is Rooted in its Selective Outrage

12/04/201828/09/2018isrLeave a Comment

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Coming Apart to be Whole

09/02/201816/01/2020Prof. SouaiaiaLeave a Comment

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Academic Integrity and the Problem of Profiting from Slavery and Racism

28/03/2017isrLeave a Comment

by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* Abstract: Teaching future generations is indeed a costly endeavor, especially when governments allocate little or no money to higher education. Universities’ administrators are always under extreme pressure to keep their institutions afloat. However, as learning and training institutions, universities instill values and norms that guide future citizens and professionals towards a […]

Mother to Trump: My daughter’s death will not be used to further this insane persecution of innocent people

08/02/2017isrLeave a Comment

The mother of a slain British backpacker wrote a scathing letter to Trump after her daughter’s killing in Australia appeared on the White House’s list of 78 underreported terror attacks.“My daughter’s death will not be used to further this insane persecution of innocent people,” Rosie Ayliffe said. This White House does not have a problem […]

Why the Muslim Ban cannot be justified by national security concerns?

29/01/2017isrLeave a Comment

The White House justified its ban on Muslims coming from seven countries by citing potential threat of terrorism and national security. The facts do not support that argument. First, it is a fact that none of the terrorists who actually carried out attacks in the United States since 2001 has had any connections to countries […]

Where is the Outrage?

13/01/201528/11/2019Prof. SouaiaiaLeave a Comment

Europe’s hypocrisy and latent racism displayed after the Paris attacks by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* On January 11, 2015, an estimated 1.6 million people walked the streets of Paris as part of a “unity march” in reaction to the recent attack in the French capital. Some 40 world leaders joined the march. Other high-profile individuals also […]

On the need to balance endowments and academic integrity

15/04/201328/11/2019Prof. SouaiaiaLeave a Comment

by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* The article in The Atlantic, The Emir of NYU (MAR 13, 2013), touched on a very important issue: academic integrity. It came on the heels of the no-confidence vote NYU’s faculty in the College of Arts and Science delivered against the president, John Sexton. Sexton is renowned for creating satellite research […]

The Foundation of Supremacy: Racializing Human Acts

03/08/2011isrLeave a Comment

by Ahmed E. Souaiaia* by Ahmed E. Souaiaia I vividly remember the day of the Oklahoma bombing. Not because of the news reports—I was too busy working and with school to watch the news. Consequently, I was not aware of what had happened that day until late in the afternoon. But as I walked into […]