All content by Loor Elbedour
May 31, 2022
While covering an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Shireen Abu Akleh was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while visibly wearing a press jacket. Abu Akleh has been reporting...
May 20, 2022
During the week of May 3rd, five students from every high-school in Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) were invited to meet with the newly appointed superintendent, Dr. Michelle Reid at Thoreau Middle...
May 6, 2022
Archpriest Arsanios Wadeed was stabbed to death while strolling in the waterfront promenade corniche in Alexandria, Egypt. The Coptic Orthodox Church announced its condolences, calling him a “martyr”...
March 31, 2022
Last week marked the 11-year anniversary of the devastating and still ongoing conflict in Syria. Rather than moving forward and finding a solution to this conflict, we instead see parallels between tactics...
February 20, 2022
Brothers of the Gun is a coming-of-age memoir written by Marwan Hisham and Molly Crabapple that graphically and textually details Hisham's experience as a man living in Raqqa during the Syrian War. Crabapple...
December 16, 2021
On December 20th of 1968, the Zodiac killer took his first life marking the beginning of an era of murder and mystery. The Zodiac killer terrorized the San Francisco Bay Area from 1968 through the 1970’s....
December 16, 2021
On November 30th, 2021, 15-year old Ethan Crumbley opened fire on his classmates at Oxford Highschool near Detroit, Michigan killing 4 students, injuring 7 students and 1 teacher.
The shooting claimed...
November 23, 2021
Despite the Taliban’s reassurances to the United Nations (UN), female aid workers in Afghanistan continue to fear for their safety over restrictions placed on them that make it difficult to do their...
October 26, 2021
Squid Game, released by Netflix on September 17, 2021, is a psychological thriller written and directed by South Korean film director and screenwriter, Hwang Dong-hyuk. The show became an overnight sensation...
October 1, 2021
On August 26th, 2021 students at Thomas Edison High School in Fairfax County staged an in-school demonstration to call attention to what they perceive as “unjust and uneven enforcement” of the FCPS...
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