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Just Different

By Malika Moustadraf

A trans youth relates her experience growing up in a Muslim environment.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: cruelty, dignity, gender, relationships, feminism, discrimination, religion

The Convert

By Lerone Bennett Jr.

Aaron Lott is killed by the sherif when he challenges segregation in Mississippi. His friend Booker is called upon to tell the truth in court about what happened while risking to lose much that is dear to him.

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In North America Tags: race and ethnicity, discrimination, race, religion

The Doum-tree of Wad Hamid

By Tayeb Salih

A village isolated from the wider world is confronted with modernity and faces an uncertain future.

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In N. Africa & Middle East Tags: religion, culture

Was it Heaven? Or Hell?

By Mark Twain

Two matron aunts hide from a mother who is ill with typhoid that her child has died from the disease.

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In North America Tags: truth, self-deception, health, child-rearing, religion

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  • Ambition 1
  • Irony 1
  • Love 1
  • Manic-Depression 1
  • abortion 1
  • arranged marriage 1
  • authority 1
  • bullying 1
  • child marriage 1
  • child-rearing 8
  • compassion 1
  • conscience 1
  • corruption 1
  • courage 1
  • cruelty 11
  • culture 4
  • dignity 4
  • discrimination 6
  • domestic abuse 1
  • empathy 4
  • exploitation 2
  • false consciousness 1
  • family 1
  • feminism 7
  • forced marriage 1
  • gender 2
  • genocide 1
  • happiness 1
  • health 1
  • holocaust 1
  • incarceration 1
  • insanity 1
  • irony 2
  • love 1
  • luck 3
  • manipulation 1
  • meaning of life 2
  • medical ethics 1
  • migration 1
  • mixed marriage 1
  • morality 1
  • murder of tyrants 1
  • neurochemistry 1
  • paternalism 1
  • perspective 1
  • photojournalism 1
  • poverty 4
  • prostitution 3
  • public health 3
  • race 3

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