During the event, Sayed Kashua spoke about what influenced him to be a storyteller and how it led him to move from the place he called home for entire life. Kashua’s work has generated significant recognition in Israel as well, as he is the recipient of the Bernstein Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize in Literature. Read more »
Sayed Kashua, a prominent Arab-Israeli writer, will be speaking at 7 p.m. Thursday in Maxwell Auditorium. Read more »
Hendricks Chapel will host its first-ever 24-hour “famine” on Saturday as part of its 2013 hunger initiative. Participants will abstain from eating for an entire… Read more »
Low-income families dependent on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will have to tighten their budgets as the $5 billion cut to the program goes into… Read more »
With the spring 2014 deadline on Tuesday, SU Abroad is still offering the opportunity for students to study in the Middle East, despite ongoing conflicts… Read more »
An S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications professor has started a campaign to free a Liberian investigative journalist, whose imprisonment has seen widespread criticism from… Read more »
Civil rights activist and journalist Myrlie Evers-Williams will be the keynote speaker for a convocation co-hosted by the Student African-American Society and the SU’s newly… Read more »
Many people stray from identifying themselves as feminists today because of the term’s negative connotations and belief that it is no longer a relevant ideal.… Read more »
Failing to acknowledge human trafficking helps perpetuate this cycle of exploitation in the United States. Although this form of modern-day slavery is condemned by society,… Read more »
FEMEN’s “International Topless Jihad Day” failed to accurately represent the majority of Muslim women. Instead, the flawed campaign generated frustration rather than support from the… Read more »
Overcoming the global gender disparity in education may seem like an overwhelming task, but it’s not hopeless. As a young child, Kadisha Phillips, a sophomore… Read more »
College women face more scrutiny than their male counterparts when it comes to gaining weight from excessive drinking. Some companies have found a way to… Read more »
Beyoncé’s latest single, “Bow Down,” contains arrogant verses that make some people question her position on female empowerment. But women do not have to be… Read more »
The two high-school football players accused in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape trial were found guilty Sunday. Ma'lik Richmond and Trent Mays’ victim, a 16-year-old girl, was dragged… Read more »
Kathrine Switzer was determined to finish the Boston Marathon, even if it meant crawling on her hands and knees. This story is how the audience… Read more »
Women face significant pressure to “have it all,” but sometimes that’s not what they want. For the modern woman, this phrase typically means having both… Read more »
SU Rising, held Thursday at Hendricks Chapel, provided an opportunity for a much-needed community dialogue about violence against women. Sexual assault is often a hard… Read more »
A grin stretched across my face when I heard the exciting news: Malala Yousafzai, the teenage girl who survived a potentially fatal Taliban shooting, was… Read more »
Last Thursday, state legislators in Arkansas approved a bill that would prevent women from getting an abortion if a fetal heartbeat could be detected. A… Read more »
On Thursday, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta officially announced the elimination of the 1994 ban on women in combat. “In life, as we all know,… Read more »
Last December, a young woman was mercilessly gang-raped by six men while trying to catch a bus home in New Delhi, India. She died 10… Read more »
In 335 Hinds Hall, the headquarters of Sidearm Sports, nearly every person in the room who is able to grow a mustache has one. “Last… Read more »
After an eight-day conflict that took the lives of many, Hamas, the political party currently governing Gaza, and Israel finally agreed on a cease-fire on… Read more »
