A few days after Khalid Noor was born in Takhar, Afghanistan, the Taliban seized the province, and his family had to escape to another region on foot.
“We were constantly moving from city to another city,” he said. “When one district was taken or collapsed, we had to move to another.”
It wasn’t an ideal life, but Noor is motivated to change that for future generations—and he’s negotiating with the Taliban to do so.
Sensing a rise in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in American culture and around the world, Anna Antonio-Vila, who said she grew up going to schools with diverse peers, was upset.
“It’s very unsettling to me because I believe that our religions are so connected and that we should not be fighting,” the government and international politics major from Spain said. “We should be helping each other.”
So, the Catholic sophomore at George Mason University posted on Twitter about her desire to form a club where people of Abrahamic faiths—Judaism, Christianity and Islam—could talk about religion and politics, connect and form a union.
A team of George Mason University students are among the brains behind a satellite that launched into space this weekend as part of a collaboration with Northrop Grumman and Virginia Space that includes being part of a resupply mission to the International Space Station.
Mason's Homecoming 2021 celebration kicked off Friday, Feb 5 with the SI2G0 truck at the Tip-Off party, and continued with headliner Tom Felton with a virtual performance on Saturday. Check out homecoming.gmu.edu for more details.
