CONNECTICUT – United by grief and anger, dozens of Yale students rose up Thursday, April 5, against discrimination and racism, hosting a “Hoodies and Hijabs” day in protest of the murder of Trayvon Martin and Shaima Alawadi. “Being discriminated against for wearing certain types of clothing, or coming from certain religious or racial backgrounds is…
A 32-year-old Iraqi immigrant fatally beaten in her home in El Cajon was buried in her native country over the weekend. Shaima Alawadi, who was found unconscious March 21 by her 17-year-old daughter, was buried in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, south of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad. “Oh God, take revenge on those responsible,” Nabil Alawadi…
The death of an Iraqi immigrant in San Diego on Saturday, an apparent victim of a hate crime, provoked a wave of outraged comments from bloggers who compared the killing to the shooting of an unarmed Florida teenager last month. The woman, Shaima Alawadi, died three days after her daughter discovered her body in a…
