{"id":419,"date":"2020-03-03T00:38:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/?p=419"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:38:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:38:48","slug":"leila-fadel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs208spring2020\/2020\/03\/03\/leila-fadel\/","title":{"rendered":"Leila Fadel"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 2nd<\/sup> I attended an event where the keynote speaker was Leila Fadel.\u00a0 Leila works for the NPR as a National Correspondent. Over the years, she has written multiples stories ranging from smugglers in Egypt to the Muslim experience while living within the United States. \u00a0Leila has won many awards over the years for her work including in 2017 when she won an award about a story detailing the hardships of a mother and two daughters.<\/p>\n

Leila spent a decade in the Middle East covering hardships that people went through.\u00a0 Within the past few years she moved back to the United States and became a National Correspondent.\u00a0 Since moving back she has shifted her focus more towards the Muslim American experience within the United States.\u00a0 She went into detail about the increasing hate crimes within the United States, especially within the past few years with the election of President Trump.\u00a0 She also showed clips throughout her presentation that had many effects on myself as a listener.\u00a0 The first clip she showed was a clip of Bosnian girls who live in Chicago singing a song.\u00a0 She mentioned how many of the girls wanted to assert their identity and wear a traditional scarf.\u00a0 However, since their parents wanted to protect their children from discrimination they did not allow them to wear the scarfs.\u00a0 The fact that little girls could not dress how they wanted to just to avoid the possibility of being bullied is a very sad fact that goes on in the United States.\u00a0 Similarly, she played a clip from an interview with a little boy where he details the bullying he constantly faces in school.\u00a0 The little boy talked about how kids go up to him and say be careful his watch might be a bomb.\u00a0 These are huge acts of racism and prejudice that unfortunately go on and many Muslim Americans have to deal with.<\/p>\n

The main takeaway from the presentation is although we may think the United States as a nation is all about freedom and equality, we are not.\u00a0 Unfortunately, there are still large biases within the United States that do not seem to be slowing down anytime soon.\u00a0 As I move forward in my own life I will try to be more aware of biases that I might have as I attempt to make everyone around me feel equal.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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