In a new memoir, Ghonim describes how the Egyptian people finally rejected 30 years of oppression and found their voice. Here, he discusses with Terrence McNally.
A rally on Tuesday increased the public pressure on Commissioner Ray Kelly and the NYPD following a series of recent controversies over police tactics.
Seth Freed Wessler, ColorLines. February 26, 2012.
The NYPD's nearly unchecked surveillance program monitored Internet exchanges and postings of Muslim students from at least 16 colleges in the Northeast.
Gillian Brockell, Medill National Security Zone. August 18, 2011.
The number of right-wing extremist and hate groups in the United States passed 1,000 for the first time, while anti-government and militia groups have increased five-fold.
On 9/11, I saw the Towers fall from my classroom window. On 5/2, I discovered that racism against Middle Eastern and South Asian people in America is as alive as ever.
The hearings had been anything more than a gross waste of taxpayers' money and public attention, and a strategic blunder in the nation's counter-terrorist effort.
Meg Stalcup, Joshua Craze, Washington Monthly. March 10, 2011.
Increasingly, American beat cops are exposed to virulently anti-Muslim teachings, by self-styled "terrorism experts" with no experience in national security.
Shelina Janmohamed, Beacon Press. December 15, 2010.
After 9/11 it was easy for people to lash out in fear. Ordinary Muslims like me, despite sharing the same panic and dread as everyone else, became cast as murderous villains.
