Stony Brook student named Truman Scholar
Photo credit: Joseph D. Sullivan | Stony Brook President Dr. Samuel L. Stanley Jr. tells Yaseen Eldik that he is a Truman scholar. Eldik's brother, Hysem Eldik, and his mother, Sanaa Nadim, stand nearby during the announcement. (March 30, 2011)
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One of the images that caught Yaseen Eldik's eye is a widely circulated illustration of a woman wearing a hijab with a rifle slung over her shoulder, a flower protruding from the barrel.
It's one of the stark images that Eldik, a sociology and psychology major at Stony Brook University, encountered in researching how Muslims are portrayed by mass media.
His analysis looked at evidence...
