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Mehlam Bhuriwala
This interview is with Mehlam Bhuriwala, an activist with experience in a variety of organizing settings and a former employee of IDCL. Mehlam tells his story of growing up in Texas as a Pakistani-American and part of the Dawoodi Bohra Muslim…
Tags: Activism, Belonging, Community, Conservatism, Dawoodi Bohra, Family dynamics, Family Eldercare, First-generation Americans, Grief, Gujarati, Houston (Texas), Immigrant parents, Islam, Labor organizers, Mental health, Minorities, Montgomery (Alabama), News, Nonprofits, Organizers, Pakistani-Americans, Palestine Solidarity Committee, Palestinian solidarity, Shia Islam, Student organizers, Systemic injustice, The University of Texas at Austin, United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), Urdu, Worker Rights Consortium (WRC)
Seja Haque
This interview is with Seja Haque, a high school senior in Corpus Christi, Texas who speaks about struggling between her Muslim and feminist identities as well as being involved at her local mosque where she was eventually asked to teach. Seja…
Miqdaad Bhuriwala
This interview is with Miqdaad Bhuriwala, a current master's student in urban planning and a member of the Dawoodi Bhora Muslim community. Miqdaad immigrated to America right after 9/11 and speaks to the experience of uprooting his life, losing parts…