Hannah Abdoh

As 2017 came to a close, many reflected upon the past year’s events through the hashtags that dominated social media platforms, from showing support to victims of terrorist attacks to social issues -  notably against sexual harassment.…
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Student protest in America is as old as college itself. The earliest evidence of student rebellion was in 1766, when Harvard hosted the ‘Butter Rebellion’. As the story goes, the butter served on campus was so bad that one Harvard man cried…
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This year the red carpet welcomed something more than its usual fare of gowned and tuxedoed celebrities attending the 2017 Oscars; this year it seemed to also bear the weight of American politics. This presence was visible in the blue…
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President Trump began his first two weeks in office by delivering a few of his top campaign promises, issuing executive orders calling for the "construction of a wall of undetermined type, length, and height along the southern border" with…
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In the run up to the inauguration, President-Elect Trump has openly threatened the Japanese Toyota industry in Mexico, aborted Boeing’s plans for developing its new generation of Air Force One presidential carrier, and mocked the CIA…
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In response to the recent U.S. House of Representatives' vote to extend American sanctions on Iran for 10 more years, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei stated that Iran would retaliate if the legislation, known as the Iran Sanctions…
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On October 17th, Iraqi forces led the advance on Mosul to recapture the city that had fallen to the self-proclaimed Islamic State in June 2014. Emboldened by their capture of Fallujah and further territory in Syria, 800 militants of the…
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At the 15-member UN Security council, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon urgently called on all member nations to "enable humanitarian assistance everywhere it is needed for the Syrians to negotiate a way out of the hell in which they are…
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