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Jahan Sharif looking up at the evening sky
Using my experiences abroad to confront the conscience of Americans at home.
A New Criteria For FriendshipIllustration by, James Graham It’s been an intense week for me, so while this post won’t be long, I hope it is complete. (The time is 10:25pm on Friday night, and I’m just beginning to write what you are now reading.) I don’t typically take stock of the people around me, but in the last […]

Nobody is a Nobody

Photo by Ghazal Sheei Today’s Jaja in was supposed to be about why President Obama is responsible for my eventual departure from television. But that will have to wait, because rarely does awareness collide so violently with reality, as it did for me this past Thursday evening. What do we do when we learn that […]

Jaja’s Summer 2019 Reading ListSeattle, WA, USA August 2019