On Nov. 5, the existing political divides amongst Harvard’s student body spurred markedly different election night screenings across campus. In Sanders Theatre, the Institute of Politics hosted what seemed to be a predominantly Democratic audience who watched with dismay as swing states leaned toward Donald Trump, dimming hopes for a Kamala Harris presidency. Meanwhile, in […]
There is a certain absolution of shame that comes from watching others share in your sin. Filing taxes an hour before the post office’s closure on the final day of the tax deadline is perhaps the most cardinal sin of all. I found a party of ten Harvard internationals in the USPS building on Mount […]
Pakistan’s ex-Prime Minister, Shahid Abbasi, turned towards me. “What’s your 9/11 theory?” I threw out my question to him from behind my cup of tea, perched in his living room post-dinner buffet at his home in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Al Jazeera journalist had left a short while ago. Her departure lent casualness and intimacy to […]
Dear Taybah, I have been dating my boyfriend seriously for a few months now. However, I consider myself to be a religious and spiritual person, whereas he is completely non-religious. I thought that as long as my partner had a strong moral framework from which he lived his life, then I would be content. Basically, […]
“This is a tragedy, but it is not the end of the story,” Wasan Rafat ’27 exclaimed to a crowd that gathered around the steps of Memorial Church to mourn the over 10,000 recent victims of Morocco’s recent 6.8 magnitude earthquake and Libya’s devastating floods. The vigil on Tuesday, September 26th, was a joint effort […]