On June 20, 2018, International Refugee Day, CBC’s The Current aired So They Can Rest A Little. This is a moving documentary on the fate of Yazidi women tortured, persecuted and sold into slavery by their ISIS captors following a genocide in Iraq in August 2014. Following this … [Read more...]
One Free World International: A Psychologist’s Perspective
“One Free World International is a family.” That is what Rev. Majed El Shafie said to me at our first meeting last year. “And now you are one of this family,” he added months later when I had become actively involved in this indispensable organization. And indeed OFWI is a … [Read more...]
Transgender Identity and the Significance of Name-Changing
Since the 1990’s, there has been a significant increase of transgenderism in the public domain. Increased media visibility with multiple reports on a variety of issues have surfaced, from questions of choice, normality, transidentity to name only a few. These have been discussed … [Read more...]