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Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN IT IS with a very heavy heart that I write this final column. Having completed my law degree this past May, after spending 10 years working in [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN THERE IS good news and bad news for the readers of this column. Next week I will write my final column. That is good news for those [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN IT'S FUNNY how much a debate can change in a relatively short amount of time. Just over two months ago, any discussion about solar wind turbines off [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN POLITICAL correctness: It started as a quest for civility in our dialogue, and yet in the minds of many, it has deteriorated into a form of societal [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN DESPITE the fact that I don't drink alcohol, there is a provision of the drunken driving statute that concerns me because it goes to the heart of [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN LAST MONTH, a community board in Manhattan held a symbolic vote in favor of a proposed project near Ground Zero. Since then, the word about the project [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN ALL ACROSS the state, thousands of students are attending their commencement ceremonies from high schools, colleges and graduate schools. And while many people are looking upon it [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN THE MISS USA Pageants have often been followed by controversy, usually associated with the tawdry antics of contestants such as Carrie Prejean (who was seen in sex [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN HERE we go again. Following the failed attempt by a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan to ignite a bomb in the heart of New York, Muslim-Americans knew [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN TODAY'S CHILDREN are living in a very different world from that of their parents. Social challenges such as bullying used to be limited to the back of [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN EVER SINCE MTV first aired 'Jersey Shore' last year, New Jersey has been getting a level of national attention that it has not received since 'The Sopranos' [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN AS LAW students serving in the legal clinics of the Rutgers School of Law, my wife and I had the opportunity to represent clients in the foster [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN WHEN it was first announced a few years ago that the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services would begin a pilot needle-exchange program for drug [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN AS AN UNDERGRADUATE student living in Newark 13 years ago, I took pride in the fact that our campus -- the University Heights section of Newark -- [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN LOST amid the attention directed towards the health care measure was news of the passage last week of another sweeping law: student loan reform. For years banks [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN IT'S THAT time of the decade again, when the government undertakes the massive exercise of not only counting the number of people who live in this country, [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN LAST YEAR the Legislature passed a law as a result of the tragic story of Kyleigh D'Alessio, a 16-year-old honors student from West Morris Central High School [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN LAST WEEK there was a good deal of reaction to my column, in which I wrote about the FBI decision to close its 2001 anthrax attack investigation [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN JUST A WEEK after Sept. 11, 2001, anthrax-laced letters from a New Jersey mailbox addressed to journalists and congressmen sparked additional terror across the country. The result [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN PRESIDENT OBAMA has an important decision to make. Should five Gitmo detainees be tried in a federal court or before a military commission? One of the Gitmo [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN NEW JERSEY is officially nicknamed the Garden State. However if you were to share that fact with many people across the country, they would be shocked. They [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN I RECENTLY had a conversation with a Rutgers University law professor who was curious about my career in journalism. She was fascinated because she was not aware [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN WE'VE all been watching the struggles of our Haitian neighbors as they deal with the aftermath of the devastating earthquake that killed thousands and left millions homeless [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN WITH so much attention focused on other controversial legislation in the closing days of the Corzine administration, including the vote against gay marriage and the vote for [...]

Byline: AHMED SOLIMAN EVER since the botched terrorist attack on a Christmas Day flight bound for Detroit, there have been new demands that Muslims and Arabs be profiled at the [...]

EVER SINCE I started law school I've been hearing all the jokes. The other day someone asked me how you know when a lawyer is lying. The answer was: when [...]

DURING the last election for governor, there was a lot of talk about the issue of charter schools in New Jersey. Each candidate was competing to show who supports them [...]

MOHAMMAD Qatanani, who is the spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County in Paterson, has been struggling to obtain permanent residency in the United States for a while [...]

AS WE MOVE through the holiday season, the abundance of fattening holiday food seems to be everywhere. Many people, wary of gaining weight, are thinking twice before reaching for that [...]

CHILDREN everywhere are rejoicing today as they spend time with extended family and loved ones. They might even get a chance to cross the Hudson River into New York and [...]

AS THE NUMBER of autistic children in New Jersey rises, the public school system has been looking for ways to expand and fund a larger special education program. Although funding [...]

NORTH JERSEY is a diverse area of the country and, as a result, the people of this area are largely accepting of their American neighbors who are from different religious [...]

NEW Jersey is not just the Garden State, it is also a solar power state. Although most people would likely assume that a state better known for its sunshine -- [...]

FOUR YEARS AGO a police officer in Cleveland, Ohio, was killed while serving an arrest warrant. What emerged from that tragic and all too common event was a new program [...]

LAST WEEK a group called 'Stop the Islamization of America' gathered in the House of Representative's Sam Rayburn House Office building to conduct a panel discussion. The reason they were [...]

I HATE SMOKE. The concept of what smoking is -- rolling up tobacco in paper, lighting it on fire and inhaling the resulting smoke -- is foolish. The dangers of [...]

ACCORDING to a recent Census Bureau study, veterans make up 7.3 percent of the civilian population aged 18 years and over in Bergen County. Currently, military enlistment goals are meeting [...]

A FEW YEARS ago, a viral message spread through e-mail and Facebook that had all of my Muslim-American friends very excited: Outback Steakhouse was serving halal lamb chops! Halal is [...]

WE'VE ALL heard stories of people who enter a hospital for an operation or other treatment, only to wind up worse off after a surgeon accidentally left a sponge inside [...]

THIS WEEK MARKS the first week of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month on the Islamic lunar calendar. From sunrise to sunset each day until the month is over, Muslims fast. [...]

THERE HAS been a lot of debate about health care lately. The most prominent arguments being made for, and against, reform of the health care industry include the idea of [...]

LAST MONTH the state Legislature capped tuition increases at public colleges at 3 percent for the coming academic year. The idea was to provide some relief to college students and [...]

THESE DAYS we often hear about the effects of the economic downturn on the auto and banking industry. But there is another industry that has been rattled in the past [...]

THERE HASN'T BEEN much good news on the issue of higher education costs in New Jersey recently. For years the rate of tuition increases at New Jersey colleges has far [...]

THIS WEEKEND families will gather over barbecues and play games together outdoors. A lot of memories will be formed as young kids watch as explosions of color light up the [...]

Many local Arab- and Muslim-Americans feel that they are the biggest victims of misinformation and negative rhetoric from AM radio talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity. THESE DAYS it [...]

PRESIDENT Obama and his fellow Democrats in Congress are pushing for health care reform that would cover millions of Americans now without coverage. Key players working with Obama on the [...]

IT HAS long been said that only Nixon could have gone to China. Can it also be said that only President Obama can improve U.S. relations with the Arab and [...]

SOMEWHERE in New Jersey there is a child who finds it difficult to understand how the world and people around him operate and also finds it hard to interact. This [...]

I RECENTLY met a teenage boy and asked him what his name was. He paused for a second and then answered 'Osama.' The other kids in the room promptly responded [...]