Transitioning to a New home: Qatar
NEPAL (July 14, 2022) It had been the first time in ages when I woke up neither through an alarm nor my mother shouting at the top of her...
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Minahil Mahmud
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
What Does it Mean to Love a Place?
I took one sip of the tea and couldn’t help but smile; it tasted exactly like home. “Cardamom, right?” I asked. The man's face broke into...
Zahra Saboorzadeh
- Oct 3, 2022
- 6 min
Iran: Culture, Traditions, and Celebrations
Iran, formerly known as Persia, is one of the oldest nations in the world, and its history dates to tens of thousands of years. It is one...
Justin Pacer
- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
The Parallels of Filipino Culture and The World
The Parallels of Filipino Culture and The World The Georgetown community is so diverse that not one culture stands out alone. Filled with...
Maliha Khan
- Dec 8, 2021
- 5 min
Muslim Women Don't Need Your Saving
“You don’t have to wear that thing, you’re free to take it off!” How many times have Hijabi women had to hear that? While the people...
J
- May 12, 2021
- 5 min
Sustaining Habits during Ramadan
…بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) said, “Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not...
Abdullah
- May 12, 2021
- 3 min
God Knows Best
We often feel very sad and lost even for the smallest things: “Why is my life this bad and his good?”, “Why would this happen to me?”, “I...
Shadoof
- May 12, 2021
- 2 min
Do Not Despair, My Girl
“Do not despair my girl…” you once told me. “Learn to trust people, learn to love, learn to smile even when it hurts, and always keep...
Shaheer Liaqat
- May 7, 2021
- 2 min
Pixels and Decibels: Video Game Songs That Slay
Gone are the days when video games were seen as the province of the few! Whether it’s housewives mixing and matching in Candy Crush or...
Iman Ismail
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
On Every Form of Grief
These past two weeks have been a steep rising and steep diving of emotions. What follows is a piece written as the result of this...
Rejoice Onyenagubo
- Apr 5, 2021
- 3 min
Fear: The Social Penumbra
The worst thing or maybe best thing about fear is that it is based on our perception of things. Fears are formed from past experiences,...
Maliha Khan
- Mar 30, 2021
- 1 min
A Train to Nowhere
I got my ticket I am on my way In the train to nowhere. Got in the economy class The one-seater assigned to one Behind is the local birth...
Shaheer Liaqat
- Mar 29, 2021
- 3 min
The Age of Pokémon
We weren’t around back then, but you can still hear the doddering dinosaurs from way back in the late 1990s talk about those glorious...
Anonymous
- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Iraqi Cultural Association
Hello! I’m Noor and I’m in the Iraqi Cultural Association. We’re a new club in Georgetown University in Qatar, and we hope to use our...
Shaheer Liaqat
- Feb 23, 2021
- 3 min
Internet of Melancholy: Remembrance of Obsolete Pleasures
In the days when light and goodness reigned and the world’s evils could be sidelined by the blissful ignorance of childhood, boys waited...
Azmeh Zaman
- Feb 23, 2021
- 4 min
Parler- Unbiased Social Media?
Just because Facebook and Twitter have banned Donald Trump’s supporters does not mean that they are shut out totally from social media....
Azmeh Zaman
- Dec 10, 2020
- 2 min
From Furry Friend to Family
Once upon a time there was a cat named Cupcake. He used to roam around my compound- a honey-coloured ball of fluff, dragging his tail...
Abijeet Pant
- Dec 10, 2020
- 4 min
Realism in Kiarostami’s Two Masterpieces
In the wake of a burgeoning post-war austerity in the late forties, the Italian film scene underwent a paradigm shift which was a novelty...
Shaheer Liaqat
- Dec 7, 2020
- 2 min
Satire: Interview with Big Brother Jack Bulldog
You might think you know who calls the shots at Georgetown. But you don’t. You may never even have heard of Jack the Bulldog- the...
Ngoc Nguyen
- Dec 7, 2020
- 3 min
EC’s Favorite Yemeni Restaurant Relocated to Al Gharafa
For many years, Yemen Hadhramaut had always been dependable for home-style Yemeni meals for Education City (EC) students. The restaurant...
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