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• Heather Hurlburt, Executive Director of the National Security Network, included me in November 2009 among her Top 20 experts whose work she recommends, of whom she says "their intellect and credentials match up or exceed their peers."
  
  
• The Jackson (MS) Free Press declared me its "person of the day" on March 11, 2010, during a series of appearances launching the Cross-Pollinate speaker & performance series.
  
  
• The USC Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism quoted me at length in a March 2010 story about emerging Muslim American leaders.
  
  
• Rabbis for Human Rights quoted me in an A Drash for Vaera on January 11, 2010.
  
  
• The Hampshire Gazzette in western Massachusetts published a profile of me on April 22, 2009, titled "City rights group hires scholar with extra talent."
  
  
• "Students Hear of Rights Fight," a March 8, 2008 article in The Courier-Post (which serves South New Jersey) about an event I addressed at Rutgers-Camden Law School regarding the constitutional crisis in Pakistan.
  
  
• "Inaugural Bash," a January 15, 2005 article in The Washington Post discussing protests against the second inauguration of President George W. Bush
  
  
• "Charges filed against three protesters," a July 24, 2003 article in The Stanford Daily about prosecutors attempting to intimidate activists arrested during an action I helped organize targeting military contractors and war profiteering
  
  
• "Awards Honor Asian Americans," a May 8, 2003 front page article (with a photo of me) in The Stanford Daily about an awards ceremony at which I received one of two Stanford Asian-American awards
  
  
• "Students participate in national strike against war," a March 7, 2003 article in The Stanford Report about the "Books Not Bombs" student walkout that featured a series of organizing sessions, performances, and alternative classes taught by roughly 60 Stanford faculty members
  
  
• "Their American Dream: Waging Peace In The Midst Of Raging War," a 2003 IndoLink article profiling me and Valarie Brar, a dear friend from my west coast days whose work puts mine to shame
  
  
• "Law dean rescinds offer to attorney," a November 15, 2002 article in the The Stanford Daily about a decision by Stanford Law School to deny public recognition to Lynne Stewart, a controversial defense attorney who was the first lawyer indicted on the basis of illegal surveillance of privileged attorney-client communications by the Ashcroft Justice Department. She'd been invited to receive a public interest mentorship award before the honor was renounced on the basis of unrelated comments she'd made suggesting the potential legitimacy of political violence. I authored a related article in a newsletter of the National Lawyers' Guild's SF Bay Area Chapter.  There are several added wrinkles to this particular saga . . . .
  
  
• "Students protest potential war in Iraq," an October 4, 2002  front page article in The Stanford Daily (with a photo of me)