Kevin James

Kevin James is a former firefighter and supervising fire marshal with the New York City Fire Department who responded to Ground Zero from home on 9/11. He was one of several Muslim Americans profiled in the 2002 PBS documentary Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet. He is a former Revson Fellow from Columbia University and graduated from Columbia Law School as a Stone Scholar.

Quantum Solidarity: Making Hajj at Bear Lodge

The mind-numbing atrocities at home and abroad dare me to respond. It’s as if world events conspired to belittle me, taunting me to try to make sense of bloodbaths by religious extremists with death machines improvised or designed. Perhaps it’s this very feeling of alienation and impotence that fuels the rage behind the headlines.
  • Issue 19, November 2018
  • Creative Nonfiction
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