For many students, college is a place of curiosity, exploration, and growth. Sometimes, this entails questioning one’s own faith and religion, becoming closer to it, or even branching away from it. Growing up with a conservative religious family in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Nuzhat T. saw her parents do their best to…

It was August 2020, and we were five months into quarantine, which meant five months away from campus, and five months of the absent hustle of student organizing. Like many others, quarantine had brought me two main things: stillness and time to reflect. During the months prior, I had many…

To the Arab American Muslim community, stigma around mental health is anything but new. According to a pilot study that assessed the attitudes toward depression in Arab American Muslims, 34.7% of respondents reported that black magic or evil eye could cause depression. While the Arab and Muslim communities are two…