7azawi: Looking Arab !

Friday, December 9, 2011

Looking Arab !

Just because you look Arab you get pulled off?! these students were traveling to attend their conference over Thanksgiving break, instead they spent five hours being questioned with no good reason to be treated that way. People need to understand how they felt when they called out their names in the plane and ordered them to leave and the looks they got from the other passengers on board.
I just want to be clear on this, no matter what nationality you are, you need to be treated with respect. We left our families and country to get the education but not to be treated as criminals. As a student myself here, I find this very racist and unethical. Why didn't anyone overseas hear about this? Our Gulf countries should step up and say something to protect our students and most importantly our religion!

PS: the students attended their conference and they are safe! il7afth allah :)

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About 7azawi

Who are we? What is it about? Why was it created? 7azawi was actually born in August, 2010. However the idea started way back, when we first traveled to study abroad. The love of our country, our heritage and our tradition grew remarkably during these years. So hopefully through 7azawi we can reflect this love to Kuwait. We will try to connect us more with our lovely past and heritage, especially in this modernized world and all the globalization we start to forget our roots and what individualize us and make us special. To cut it short; we will simply talk about lots of stuff, share experiences and focus on our past to have a better future. 7azawi group members are friends who met abroad. They built their relationship based on their love for their country. We stayed hours talking about life and Kuwait news. Some of us stayed and the others went back. We stayed good friends although the distance and time difference. And we know that we stayed friends because of the memories we shared. And to us these memories don't go away easily, like the old saying "3ashan el3shra". So we decided to have many more memories but this time we want to share them with everyone.