I lham Hameedduddin, in a loose robe and head scarf, is often mistaken for a foreigner. Although her mother is Indian and her father Arab Indian, Hameedduddin was raised in the United States, attended public schools, and is working toward a BA at Middlesex College in New Jersey. Nevertheless, she says, “Neighbors are surprised I […]
Miriam Lambert
Miriam Udel Lambert is a writer living in New York.
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From New York to Jerusalem
It might seem odd that a foreign leader charged with conducting complicated statecraft in his own country should involve himself in state-level politics in America. Or that anyone should take notice when the mayor of a foreign town of 700,000 lavishes political favors on the mayor of a U.S. city of almost seven million people. […]
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Changes is Epedemic
By his own definition, Malcolm Gladwell is a “translator,” one of a special class of people who “take ideas and information from a highly specialized world and translate them into a language the rest of us can understand.” In his articles for The New Yorker, Gladwell has been a bloodhound for speci-ficity, sniffing around obscure […]