Why Would An Attack On The Global Trade Center: Case Study
Why would an attack on the Global Trade Center in the other part of the world affect us, as Muslims, as Arabs, as Moroccans, and even as a family among thousand others in this small city of Morocco?
Why would a socially respectful man, a nice and intelligent father like mine, become a suspect of something so odd to my hearing that is “terrorism” only because he is bearded, and leads the community’s prayers?
Those were some of the disparate questions that intrigued me as a young girl, and kept me alerted to look for answers. As curious as I could be, I spent my leisure time reading. From novels and poetry works, to theology and history books, I immersed myself leaving the world outside. I only read in Arabic at first, then, I learned French …show more content…
Aljazeera and CNN were the first sources I came across to learn about the global and regional political and economic issues. Astonishingly enough, each of these two channels was presenting a different version of the same events.
Border issues, terrorism, sustainable development, OPEC, third world countries, etc. All these concepts have early sparked my awareness of the complexity and broadness of Global affairs, besides the elusive character of social sciences in general. They made me more eager to understand the roots and depths of politics, which I embraced by recurring to specialized scholarship later on.
Our philosophy, by Mohamed Baqer Sadr, was the first philosophy book I ever read. It was a comparative study of the famous philosophical schools that have revolutionized the humans’ vision of the world and mankind itself throughout history. I learned of Aristotle and Plato’s works. Then, I read about Augustine of Hippo’s contribution to Christianity, passed by Muslim philosophers, such as Avicenna and Averroes, to get to Marxism, capitalism theories and the …show more content…
I screamed these demands loudly, and felt an overwhelming surge of hope in the resurrection of another nation. That day marked the real start of my civic engagement journey that led me to found a local NGO five years later. The Moroccan Witness Association is a space I envisioned for myself and other local youth to discuss our religious beliefs, social concerns and aspirations for a better future, in order to reorient some destructive ideas that feed on neglect and the lack of exchange, all for the sake of preparing a healthy and thoughtful action in favor of my
Why would a socially respectful man, a nice and intelligent father like mine, become a suspect of something so odd to my hearing that is “terrorism” only because he is bearded, and leads the community’s prayers?
Those were some of the disparate questions that intrigued me as a young girl, and kept me alerted to look for answers. As curious as I could be, I spent my leisure time reading. From novels and poetry works, to theology and history books, I immersed myself leaving the world outside. I only read in Arabic at first, then, I learned French …show more content…
Aljazeera and CNN were the first sources I came across to learn about the global and regional political and economic issues. Astonishingly enough, each of these two channels was presenting a different version of the same events.
Border issues, terrorism, sustainable development, OPEC, third world countries, etc. All these concepts have early sparked my awareness of the complexity and broadness of Global affairs, besides the elusive character of social sciences in general. They made me more eager to understand the roots and depths of politics, which I embraced by recurring to specialized scholarship later on.
Our philosophy, by Mohamed Baqer Sadr, was the first philosophy book I ever read. It was a comparative study of the famous philosophical schools that have revolutionized the humans’ vision of the world and mankind itself throughout history. I learned of Aristotle and Plato’s works. Then, I read about Augustine of Hippo’s contribution to Christianity, passed by Muslim philosophers, such as Avicenna and Averroes, to get to Marxism, capitalism theories and the …show more content…
I screamed these demands loudly, and felt an overwhelming surge of hope in the resurrection of another nation. That day marked the real start of my civic engagement journey that led me to found a local NGO five years later. The Moroccan Witness Association is a space I envisioned for myself and other local youth to discuss our religious beliefs, social concerns and aspirations for a better future, in order to reorient some destructive ideas that feed on neglect and the lack of exchange, all for the sake of preparing a healthy and thoughtful action in favor of my