My last full month with my host company and Challenge Detroit was great. I finally experienced Detroit and the surrounding area with beautiful summer weather! My fiancée also began her Teach for America summer institute training. She will be spending 5 weeks in Chicago preparing for her job in Southwest Detroit teaching 11th grade math. She […]
Blog for May 2014
Since Challenge Detroit is a regional effort (and considering I just visited the “Taste of Ann Arbor” festival), I chose write a blog featuring some local food finds in Dearborn. Dearborn has the largest concentration of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East. Along with all these Arabs comes great food and […]
Detroit Tigers!
Finally the weather is looking up and the Tigers season is under way! For my brothers 27th birthday I bought him tickets to the Tigers game against the Chicago White Sox. Comerica Park is one of my favorite places in the world and I am very excited to go to many more games the […]
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This past month Challenge Detroit changed things up a bit with the set up of the challenge. Instead of all the fellows working on one non-profit as we have done before, Challenge Detroit partnered with five non-profits and the fellows were split into five different groups to work with each non-profit. I was fortunate enough […]
This was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. COTS, Coalition on Temporary Shelter, is not your average homeless shelter. It is a place in which people who have had a rough time can have a fresh start. COTS really looks to do more than just feed and shelter its clients. What makes […]
January 1st: A New Year with so many changes in my life. I am so grateful for the amazing year I had, and am excited for a great 2014 with Challenge Detroit!
January 5th: My engagement party and religious wedding* was scheduled for this day … unfortunately a polar vortex forced us to reschedule.
Mid January (I […]
My host company through Challenge Detroit is Hospice of Michigan. I work mainly with the Advanced Illness Management program called At Home Support. This service provides patients with nurses, social workers, home aids, and volunteers that can assist them with their day-to-day lives. What truly makes the program amazing is that it provides improved and […]
This past spring, I interned with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn. This is one of the many gems of the Metro Detroit area. Located on Michigan Avenue just west of Detroit across from the Dearborn City Hall, the museum has been a cornerstone of education and art in the community since 2005.
Upon entering […]
I often feel magnified, as if I am the representative for half a billion Arabs and over 1.5 billion Muslims. As if my actions, or the actions of any Arab or Muslim, are some how indicative of the character of over a quarter of the world’s population. I occasionally joke with my colleagues in Challenge […]
Last year, I found love in an unlikely place. I had just finished my junior year of college, and I needed a source of income. One day while I was studying for the MCAT at the Starbucks down Michigan Avenue, I came across a local posting for a summer tutoring position. I contacted the company […]