Fourth-year BSLA student Maya Hamed was featured in The Lantern for her role in the hosting of the Arab Student Union's Annual Arab Night Event. Hamed is the president of the Arab Student Union.

The theme of the event, “Kulna Wahad” — which is Arabic for “together we are one” — highlights the power of unity, said Maya Hamed, a fourth-year in landscape architecture and president of the Arab Student Union.

“Every other year, Arab Night is just a year of culture,” Hamed said. “We don’t really have a specific mission or message we are trying to deliver to our audience. For this year in particular, the message we are trying to deliver is if we are all united, we can accomplish and achieve so many things.”

Read more at The Lantern