Below is the text of an abridged version of my talk for the opening plenary session of the Association of … More
Category: Islamophobia
Student Protests Reveal a Systemic Disease
As medical students, we recognize that bias in medicine is doubly damaging: it burdens our peers and it harms our … More
Victory over racial profiling: Federal court rules Americans can challenge No Fly List
About time!! Doesn’t directly challenge the constitutionality of this list but a great step forward for so many Americans who … More
Bias in the Medical School Admissions Process
The long and cumbersome process of applying to medical schools has finally come to a close this month for applicants … More
Mocking “Foreign Accents” and the Privilege of “Sounding White”
Originally posted on Muslim Reverie:
I’ve been giving this topic a lot of thought for a while, not only because of…
Informant: NYPD paid me to “bait” Muslims
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/23/informant_nypd_paid_me_to_bait_muslims_2/ This article raises the issue of whether civil liberties are truly being violated with the ongoing NYPD surveillance of … More
Sick of hearing the “those poor oppressed Muslim women” rhetoric
Great paper by one of my favorite professors at Columbia who encouraged me to switch from an engineering major to … More
Tehreem Rehman, MD MPH 