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Rummana Hussain

Editorial board member and columnist

Rummana Hussain joined the editorial board in 2021 and is a popular columnist who writes on a variety of social and cultural topics. Hussain has held several jobs at the Sun-Times, including assistant metro editor, criminal courts reporter, general assignment reporter and assistant to columnist Michael Sneed. Before joining the Sun-Times, Hussain covered education and criminal courts in Lake County for the Chicago Tribune and covered crime, education and City Hall for the now-defunct City News Bureau. A Chicago native, Hussain was named a Jefferson journalism fellow by the East-West Center in 2006. She has served on the board of the Chicago Headline Club and the local chapter of the Asian American Journalists Association. She has a masters degree in journalism from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from Loyola University. She lives in Rogers Park.

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La Voz Chicago
Para ver y aprender: El Festival de Cine Palestino de Chicago pretende entretener y educar
No todos los cineastas participantes son de origen palestino, pero su arte reivindica y defiende relatos que han sido profanados por quienes tienen una tendencia pavloviana a pensar en terroristas —y no en civiles inocentes— cuando visualizan a hombres, mujeres y niños palestinos.
By Rummana Hussain
 
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Columnists
Watch and learn: Chicago Palestine Film Festival aims to entertain, educate
Not all participating filmmakers are of Palestinian descent, but their art reclaims and champions narratives that have been defiled by those who have a Pavlovian tendency to think terrorists — not innocent civilians — when they visualize Palestinian men, women and children.
By Rummana Hussain
 
Sue Naher takes photos of cars stuck in the northbound lanes of Lake Shore Drive near North Avenue after they were trapped by snow on Feb. 2, 2011.
Columnists
Is that rain outside? I think I'll work from home.
The days of trekking to the office in bad weather are over for people who have worked remotely since the pandemic started.
By Rummana Hussain
 
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Columnists
Bothered by pro-Palestinian activists? Most Americans didn't like civil rights, Vietnam War protests either.
Americans tend to quickly praise demonstrators engaging in “good trouble” overseas but bristle at dissent in their own backyard.
By Rummana Hussain
 
Murad Nofal (right) and Mustafa Mabruk, co-founders of Wear The Peace, wear a sweatshirt with a watermelon symbol on it at Wear The Peace’s warehouse in Jefferson Park.
Columnists
Watermelon surprise: How the daughter of Hollywood stars helped a Chicago clothing company raise money, awareness for Gaza
Violet Affleck, daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, wore a crewneck made by clothing company Wear The Peace. Now the company, founded by two sons of Palestinian refugees, is raking in business.
By Rummana Hussain
 
Dima Sulaiman holds an envelope with her citizenship papers on the day she received her U.S. citizenship.
Columnists
Dima Sulaiman was the kind of neighbor who didn’t want to be a familiar stranger. She wanted to be friends.
Rogers Park resident Dima Sulaiman may have been disabled, but she didn’t let her physical ailments or her family’s challenging experiences as Iraqi refugees deter her.
By Rummana Hussain
 
Protesters, holding a banner which reads as “In Gaza, the State of Israel also kills journalists” and displaying the names and photographs of the killed ones, take part in a demonstration to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza near Place de la Republique in Paris, on Nov. 11, 2023.
Columnists
Journalists in Gaza deserve protection — not death
Fifty-three journalists have been killed in the Middle East since Oct. 7, including 46 Palestinians, four Israelis and three Lebanese, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
By Rummana Hussain
 
A member of the Palestinian security forces carries a child, wounded by Israeli airstrikes, into Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on October 11, 2023. Israel on October 11 kept up its bombardment of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip. Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP)
Columnists
Palestinians are victims in Israel-Hamas war: ‘Our blood seems to be worth a lot less’
Israel’s relentless siege to punish members of Hamas for last week’s deadly attack has only led to the carnage of more innocent souls in the Gaza Strip.
By Rummana Hussain
 
Beyonce performs at a Get Out the Vote concert for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at the Wolstein Center in Cleveland, Ohio, Nov. 4, 2016. Taylor Swift performs at Soldier Field, Friday, June 2, 2023. AP Photo; Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times
Columnists
Taylor Swift, Beyoncé beats put profits ahead of serious journalism
Neither Taylor Swift nor Beyoncé will find themselves begging for more articles or air time even without a hype man or woman from Gannett, which laid off hundreds of staffers in its news division a year ago.
By Rummana Hussain