Jasur Magazine / مجلّة جسور
by Yoshi (Aisha Al-Ali), c. 2022.
Jasur means bold, brave, and courageous in Arabic (جَسور), Persian (جسور), and Turkish (çesur) .
The current executive board chose this name in keeping with our founding mission of providing students with a platform for critical engagement with issues in the MENA region. To us, true critical engagement can only come through relationships, both across physical space––between students at different universities, in the U.S., the Arab World, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, etc.–– as well as across cultures. This kind of bridge-building requires courage: the courage to withhold judgements, to admit ignorance, to abandon presuppositions, and to be honest with one another.
Jasur is run primarily by students at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but welcomes contributions from students around the world.