Corner Office Shaikh

Driven by curiosity’s sake.

  • The Things We Should Do, But Sometimes Don’t

    The things we complain about- food being to salty or too spicy; too hot or too cold; a smudge or a scratch on our phone; the whining crying baby siting next to us; or the kid playing his drums or whatever instrument until 2 in the morning on a weeknight. Everybody seems to be annoyed… Read more

  • Please can the government just shut down already?

    I remember the 1990’s, it wasn’t all Full House and Madonna.  I remember the government shut down(s) and the ice packed on Washington DC streets and all the fuss about the country not having money to keep doing the business of America, whatever that business was, I was fairly young.  I thought the President made… Read more

  • Qatar World Cup 2022 Drama

    FIFA Falling to Racism or Becoming a Tool for 21st Century Imperialism That was one short lived party!  I remember how excited, and surprised, the announcement of the 2022 FIFA World Cup being awarded to Qatar had me.  All sorts of fuzzy warm feelings started rolling up in my tummy, then I thought, REALLY?!?  But… Read more

  • A Beauty Pageant, Tough Skin and Chicago’s Rizza Cadillac (Who buys a Caddy anyway?)

    Here I was writing about the 14th Amendment for Constitution Day, shit goes down with the Miss America pageant and today, today I get a press release from CAIR Chicago about a dealership discriminating against Muslim employees: In the lawsuit, the EEOC alleges that Adam Adawy, Medhat Adawy, and Mohammed El-Hajjami were subjected to harassment… Read more

  • Never Felt Special

    Can you imagine going through your life, 20 years or 35 years, without having your picture taken besides for some government document?  The prospect of taking a picture, getting make up, having your hair done.  Those seem like things we take for granted, at least my perception was that everyone has their picture taken, or… Read more

  • Constitution Day- Celebrating The Fourteenth Amendment

    “Do you speak a lot?” asked Shireen (not the students real name), my apprehensive fourteen-year-old client while I worked at CAIR-Los Angeles as the Civil Rights Department Manager. Shireen had experienced an incident at her high school where a boy had allegedly pulled her headscarf, telling her “we don’t want terrorists at our school.” Having… Read more

  • 2+2=5

    I was incredibly moved by this short piece. I don’t know too much about the director and I am not sure if the film speaks beyond Iran. However, I don’t think that it is at all limited to a geographic area. I want to be careful about constructing something into this video that it wasn’t… Read more

  • Segregation and diversity, an imperfect union

    In a post from a couple of days ago I reflected on the greater diversity we have in the United States and how our history with racial issues like slavery have brought about a slew of legislation derived from the 14th Amendment in order to ensure the equality and justice for all Americans is a… Read more

  • Managing diversity in America, begins with Missouri, The Compromise(s) and Dred Scout

    As the United States deals with diversity, much of the laws that give a equal playing field and legal recourse to individuals relies on the fourteenth amendment.  However, to understand it, we are required to have a knowledge of history, culture and judicial authority as well as some sort of idea behind the extensive debate… Read more

  • 9/11- The years are adding up, how do we remember? Honor?

    I can’t believe that its been 12 years.  Like so many people around the world I too remember exactly where and what I was doing when this horrible day played out.  If you read anything about 9/11, 12 years on, read this Esquire piece; it goes with the picture. As the years keep adding up,… Read more