Tag: wissam Charafeddine
الهوية العربية الحلقة ١٦: الحرب الخارجية ضد الهوية العربية
الهوية العربية الحلقة ١٦: الحرب الخارجية ضد الهوية العربية
Article 11 – Security – Privacy, Liberty, and Protection from Arbitrary Power
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Arab Identity – eps. 15: External War Against Arab Identity
Arab Identity - eps. 15: External War Against Arab Identity
Arab Identity Eps 14: How Arabs Helped Establish America
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Article 10 – Penal Code – Justice Without Cruelty
No person shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. All penal legislation and its application shall be consistent with internationally recognized human rights standards, taking into due account the cultural and social context of the community. In all circumstances, the administration of penalties shall respect the inherent dignity ...
Ode to Astro
Ode to Astro I love you, Dearborn cafés… but, here is the truth, you’re flirting with the idea of a café, not committing to the relationship. You don’t have to worry about because, unfortunately, the new generation never experienced one in Dearborn. A real café isn’t something you decorate into existence. It’s something that slowly ...
Article 8 – Separation Between Religion and State
All religions and religious sanctities should be completely separate from politics, governments, and all its services and institutions. Governments can organize and manage religious institutions if need be and consent awarded by members of the said institutions.
Reason Without Humanity Is Not Humanism: Why Sam Harris Should Not Receive the Richard Dawkins Award by Wissam Charafeddine
The Center for Inquiry says the Richard Dawkins Award honors a person who publicly represents secularism and rationalism, and CFI says its mission is to advance reason, science, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values. Sam Harris may fit the secular-celebrity part of that profile, but I do not believe he fits the humanist part. With Richard Dawkins set to present him the 2026 award in an online ceremony on April 18, this is exactly the moment to ask whether intellectual sharpness without moral clarity is really what CFI wants to celebrate
وسام شرف الدين: من العمل الثقافي إلى قيادة حزب الخضر الأمريكي
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My 2025 Reading List (aka: Books That Rewired My Brain)
2025 was a “multiple tabs open” kind of year. This reading stack is the stuff that kept me grounded, suspicious of hustle-culture, allergic to propaganda, and still soft enough to believe humans can be better than the systems we’re trapped in. The image says it all: me in a bookstore-library maze, sitting at a piano, surrounded by stories and ideas like they’re sheet music. That’s basically my whole philosophy in one frame. Reading is how I tune my mind back to the right key—especially when the world is loud, cruel, and trying to sell you distraction as destiny. Below is my 2025 list based on the covers in the collage—what each book gave me, and why it mattered.