There will be a panel on practical ways to support migrants and resist xenophobic discourse and policies in this critical moment. There are opportunities for you to submit a proposal to lead a workshop. The most important part is to create a space for solidarity, empowerment, and action.

I truly hope that Syria, which paid the heftiest price in the Arab Spring, will be a source of hope for a better future for all of its people and other dreamers in the region.

Some Egyptians are cautioning their Syrian friends about the future given where things went after 2011 across the region.

I truly hope that Syria, which paid the heftiest price in the Arab Spring, will be a source of hope for a better future for all of its people and other dreamers in the region.

But perhaps it's because these moments do not last long and because the future is unknown that the people of Syria should celebrate the fall of the dictators who have oppressed them!

I do that by looking into the character of Joseph whose hybrid identity moves beyond the binary of us vs them, oppressed vs oppressor, with the hope of finding justice and reconciliation.

In this essay I take it a bit further by looking into how dealing with the other without begins with embracing the other within.

Womanist hermeneutics have already raised questions about this notion when they centered the story of Hagar the Egyptian.