Credits: (l) New York University | (r) University of Haifa

Excerpts from Op-Ed:

You can’t get more visible than standing on stage next to a former president. Last month I was privileged to be the MC at University of Haifa’s Honorary Doctorate Event in New York City for President Bill Clinton and Prof. John Sexton (former President of NYU). A tech glitch put me in an awkward position where I had to inform President Clinton that he could not take the podium. After the ceremony, Clinton told me he was tickled by the incident and found the ceremony itself refreshing. Shaking Clinton’s hand and making him laugh makes me eager for my next transformative moment. For now, I’ll continue to work hard and dedicate myself to the University of Haifa – an institution that prides itself on promoting coexistence. It is arguably the only place on earth where Arabs and Jews coexist. If I learned anything from Clinton, it is to fearlessly come forward to the center of the stage. Let’s make our own peace happen. Because nobody will make it for us. Let’s make a shared society happen because nobody will unless we do it first. |  FULL ARTICLE HERE

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Dr. Hanin Karawani-Khoury (Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders) is a Chrstian Arab researcher of neuroscience, clinical audiologist, and speech pathologist.