Sina Torabi is a graduating senior majoring in Biological Sciences with minors in Health Care Studies and Economics. He has been heavily involved in various research projects while at USC, working in Dr. Norman Arnheim’s genetics lab, as well as at CHLA’s Otolaryngology Department. He has also been involved with campus organizations, such as USC’s Chalk the Block … [Read more...] about Medicine: Advanced by Diversity
Stateless: Exploring the Political Dynamics of Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Around the World, This Week’s Focus–Basques
The Basque people are an indigenous group to the northern part of Spain and a small part of southern France near the western part of the Pyrenees range and the Bay of Biscay—known as the Basque Country. Basques speak the language known as Basque, which is unrelated to any Indo-European languages and is believed to predate Romance languages. Traditionally, Basques have mostly … [Read more...] about Stateless: Exploring the Political Dynamics of Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Around the World, This Week’s Focus–Basques
Rethinking Refugee
Anna-Catherine Brigida graduated from USC in May 2015 with a degree in print and digital journalism and a minor in international relations. She now works as a freelance journalist in Latin America. Immigration reform has once again risen to the top of policy issues for the Obama Administration, this time surrounding the recent surge in young Central American … [Read more...] about Rethinking Refugee
Stateless: Exploring the Political Dynamics of Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Around the World, This Week’s Focus–The Kurds
The Kurds are an ethnic group native to the area of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq, western Iran, and northern Syria, an area which they call Kurdistan. The northern part of Iraq is called Iraqi Kurdistan and is an autonomous region. Kurds are related to Persian peoples and speak various dialects of Kurdish, which is most similar to Persian. In Iraq, Kurdish is an official … [Read more...] about Stateless: Exploring the Political Dynamics of Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Around the World, This Week’s Focus–The Kurds
Stateless: Exploring the Political, Dynamics of Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Around the World, This Week’s Focus–The Sikhs
Sikhism is the fifth largest religion in the world, and yet very few people have heard of it. In fact, there are even more Sikhs in the world than Jews. Sikhism was founded in the late 15th century in the region of Punjab (northwest India and eastern Pakistan) by Guru Nanak, who was born to a Hindu family. The Indian subcontinent was majority Hindu yet was ruled by … [Read more...] about Stateless: Exploring the Political, Dynamics of Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Minorities Around the World, This Week’s Focus–The Sikhs