This Muslim Family Invites Strangers for Dinner to Combat Islamophobia

Resisting hatred through curry, friendship, and hospitality

Will Buckingham
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5 min readJan 15, 2020

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Yusra Rafeeqi stood with her father at the intersection of El Camino Real and Embarcadero Road in Palo Alto, California. In was 4 o’clock on a Thursday afternoon in May 2017, four months since the inauguration of President Donald Trump. Yusra was…

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Will Buckingham
Heated

Writer & philosopher. PhD. Stories & ideas to make the world a better place. HELLO, STRANGER (Granta 2021): BBC R4 Book of the Week. Twitter @willbuckingham