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By AMHAD ESFAHANI

Those who understand, really don’t have to say anything, and never is this more self-evident than within the Boston State House. Last week, I attended the “Massachusetts Muslim Day at the State House” put on by the state chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and apart from the decorum, the diagonal waves of hidden intent left me reeling.

By AMHAD ESFAHANI

In the first class on the first day of the first semester of my first year of college, wisdom itself spoke to me in the guise of a quirky, bald professor. Sociology 101, or so it would seem, typically sets the stall out for many a wannabe political theorist, but on this occasion, I was told that my generation would inherit the earth. Well … maybe not in so many words, but here’s the short version.

By AMHAD ESFAHANI

By AMHAD ESFAHANI

 Earlier this year, at a gathering near the coast, I met a photographer who had recently spent some time documenting first-hand the ongoing Palestinian conflict. In our conversation, he asked me, “what can be done to help heal the intergenerational...

By AMHAD ESFAHANI

 At one point in history, who can say how long ago, an individual walked into town wearing purple shoelaces. No one really understood how someone could wear any other shoelace color besides whatever the established normative was at the time, but as...

By AMHAD ESFAHANI

 In recent weeks, following a random board meeting in Buckland, a man stopped me on my way out and asked, “are you the guy who wrote that obnoxious article in the Recorder?” This inquiry left me in a state of confusion for several hours, as I honestly...