{"id":5189,"date":"2021-08-12T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:34:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-21T22:27:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T20:27:18","slug":"hyphen-ated-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2021\/08\/hyphen-ated-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"MEDIUM: Hyphen-ated for Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the U.S. 2020 Census results are being released today, here are my reflections, which I also submitted to The Medium Writers Challenge on the topic of “Space”.<\/p>\n

Hyphen-ated for Life<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Democratic representation of ‘We The People’ requires an accurate ascertainment of who ‘We The People’ are.”<\/em> ~Arab American Institute<\/p>\n

By Sam Bahour<\/p>\n

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The space of identity is tight. A single identity can hardly fit into its place, yet that is what society expects. The reality of identity is much more dynamic and colorful than dry categories of some census-defined race or ethnicity.<\/p>\n

READ AT:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/sbahour.medium.com\/hyphen-ated-for-life-158c323cb24f?sk=769779d796c85e0cdc93909226124e21<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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As the U.S. 2020 Census results are being released today, here are my reflections, which I also submitted to The Medium Writers Challenge on the topic of “Space”. Hyphen-ated for Life “Democratic representation of ‘We The People’ requires an accurate ascertainment of who ‘We The People’ are.” ~Arab American Institute By Sam Bahour The space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[1586,132,133,134,985,137],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-america-and-americans","tag-census","tag-identity","tag-mcw-space","tag-racism","tag-space"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6038,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions\/6038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}