Sobia F. Ali-Faisal
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What I learned from the last 5000 Years
I just finished reading India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent by Audrey Truschke. The blurb on the page describes it as follows: Much of world history is Indian history. Home today to one in four people, the subcontinent has long been densely populated and deeply connected to Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas Read more
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On Fear of Muslim Leadership and Power
By now, many of you will have heard that the next mayor of New York City is Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim man of South Asian heritage and Ugandan background. He is the youngest mayor the city has elected in a century and its first Millennial in the role. Politically, Mamdani is a Democratic Socialist Read more
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Finding the Missing Puzzle Pieces
For those not familiar with me, by undergraduate and graduate education has all been in the field of psychology. While my undergraduate degree was in Psychology (general), my Masters and PhD were both in Applied Social Psychology, not in Clinical Psychology as everyone assumes. As an academic field, psychology is not, in general, critical. In Read more
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Two Years of Losing my Mind
It has been two years. Two years. Two years of one of the most heinous events of our lifetimes unfolding in front of our eyes, live streamed on our phones. Two years of the holocaust of Palestinians people in Gaza (and the West Bank). Two years of the most horrific images of death, destruction, and Read more
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Silenced for Being Muslim?
Institutional anti-Muslim Racism in Action From May 2024 until July 2025, I worked at the University of Prince Edward Island as the inaugural Director of the (new) Department of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) and Human Rights. As a Muslim and racialized leader working in equity, diversity, and inclusion, I believed that meaningful change required speaking Read more
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Treaty Day 2025
What non-Indigenous folks need to know Today, October 1st, is Treaty Day. As a child of Muslim immigrants from the Global South, I live, work, and play on Epek’wtik, the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq Peoples. We are governed by the Peace and Friendship Treaty of 1725. I recognize my duty to honour Read more
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New Beginnings
The next chapter of my life One of the most commonly known (and frustrating) aspects of ADHD is that those with ADHD are experts at starting projects but rarely (never?) finish them. As a neurodivergent person, my many attempts at creating an online writing portfolio can attest to this trait. I start, with so much Read more
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