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Al-Bayan is a publication at the University of California, Berkeley whose mission is to offer insight and clarity on issues pertinent to the Muslim community. This is our Spring '12 issue with the the theme "Perspectives."
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The Muslim Student Publication atThe University of California, Berkeley
PERSPECTIVES
Spring 2012
Science and Religion
IslamIc RequIemconveyIng the message thRough an aRtIstIc foRm of communIcatIon
a look at Scientific factS pReSent in the QuRan
PRotest mIsconcePtIonsone student actIvIst attemPts to
dIsPel common mIsconcePtIons
Al-Bayan
PlusInspIratIonal poems from our poetry contest
Volume 14 Issue 2
Enter a portal of different views
The Muslim Student Publication atThe University of California, Berkeley
PERSPECTIVES
Spring 2012
Science and Religion
IslamIc RequIemconveyIng the message thRough an aRtIstIc foRm of communIcatIon
a look at Scientific factS pReSent in the QuRan
PRotestIng foR humanItyone student actIvIst attemPts to
dIsPel common mIsconcePtIons
Al-Bayan
PlusInspIratIonal poems from our poetry contest
Volume 14 Issue 2
Enter a portal of different views
confeSSionS of a female mSa pReSident
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Al-BayanThe Muslim Student Publication at
The University of California, Berkeley
Volume 14 Issue 2
Editor-in-ChiefMaliha Ahmed
Managing EditorSarah Mohamed
Layout EditorLameese Eldesouky
Layout DesignersShelby Ashbaugh
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PhotographersMohammad Afsar
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Finance ManagerMohamed Haimoud
([WHUQDO$DLUVMinhaj Khan
Web EditorMarjon Momand
AdvisorsYusuf Chao
Amani JadallahAsnavy Sari
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05 Church and UmmahFatima Azam07
09 Syrian StruggleTaqwa Elhindi
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14 OTI: CounterproductiveNader Atassi
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18 Brown Farhana JahanI Followed your Dreams Erum Khan
Allah, my oneInas Hyatt
InsPIRatIonal student Poemsfrom our fIrst annual poetry
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Islamic RequiemOmar Rehmane
CommunityZienab Abdelgany
Protesting ProsFatima Mekkaoui
Science in RevelationBushra Samimi
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SYRIA FLASH MOB AND PROTESTS ORGANIZED BY CAL MSA POLITICAL ACTIONS COMMITTEE, PHOTOS BY NATALIE IRWIN
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Dont give someone criticism unless you have the solution to the problem you see. Oftentimes thats exactly what is lacking: the alternative. So until the alternative is found, one will con-
tinue to do what one knows best.
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5Common MISCONCEPTIONS about PROTESTINGhat protest is hella dumb. Whats even the point?
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Extending THE branchHow Dialogue Groups Can be CounterProductive to the Palestinian Cause
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I followed your dreams.I followed your dream and it led me through alleys and pathways,forests,Deserts in the midst of vast oasis.
I followed your dream to the end of a tunnel and back,Lost a candle and lit another,/an empty cornerFollowing all the way.
I followed along fences and over them,&rung and picket.One two three one two three
I followed your dreams.But at the end you wereNowhere to be found.
She said I probably dont use soapwhich is why my skin is so dirty,Brown.Why cant I just wash my genes clean,wear my face, arms, back, legsin the shade like forsha girls.I learned to hate the sun at a young age,and my skin long before then.
No amount of scrubbing and bleachcould fade this dirt, this hurt,when I like sunburn,if i could sunburn,and not turn brown instead.
I discerned confusion.But you live in America, you should be white!Sorry to disappoint.
That my straight As dont stand for Anglophile/California sunkissed skintranslates to itll be harder for you to
There was an uncle, whom I had never met,what was he like? I asked.Kalo. Dark.Not dark like he was broody, or found morbid humor amusing.Not even tall, dark, and handsome,because that word doesnt belong among the others--dark.
They say dark chocolates an acquired taste., turns sweet?
Then one day,You look lighter than before!/The dark shadow crossing my dark eyes,
I cant remember the color of my skin.It grows dim, brown paper bag,paper thin,for you to wash me with coloror wash me clean.
Bleaches and creams,I tried them all,not eight years old,but old enough to hatethis shamla chamra, ki nongra.
In my land of brown bodies,I must be fair of skin to be lovely.
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Allah, my one/,
I got a good oneand I know what youre thinkin
yah yah inas we heard this beforeevery other week
you meet someoneinspires
weak at the kneesjust the awe of the visual
but this one
and my words afraid to run game
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but real talk, just the idea of this one makes me stop and just think
dang, I got a good one
but Im really digging this track
new jack city swing
swing low sweet chariotsand my mothers mothers mothers mother
lost the one the I wonso I know to love this one so deeply
and back when I was youngermisguided feelingstears soul asunder
and hearing what she said, he saidand they said
then all of a sudden I forgot how we feltand insecurity and doubt caused me to deuce out
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and I dont know what was louder,my heart or my soul calling back the one that I thought i lost
but my arrogance made my words stay silentface stoic, the pain and trying to hide it
but then I saw other people with my oneand even though I let you go, I knew no one could love you like
I doand we had it
and I took our love for granted/
so grant me mercybecause you told me when I walk to you
you come at me in hasteso I stood at the origins of my faith
and realizedit is only god who is great
Ar RahmanAr RahimAl Wahab
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you are always the one to me
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