Shared liminal identity builds trust that reveals suffering invisible to media

Evidence

In his memoir Out of Place, Edward Said characterized this liminal space as a source of “strength” and “possibility.” In the journey of writing this book, this liminality transformed into a wide portal that enabled me to connect with Muslims in places near and far. I spoke to them as both a scholar of Islamophobia and a fellow Muslim, our shared liminality giving me access to their stories and shoring up the trust that only empathy can build. They knew me, and through affinity and familiarity, a bridge toward knowing them was constructed. This bridge has led me to places distant and distinct, and even more importantly, contexts in which Muslims suffer invisibly, ignored by cameras. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 55

Categorization

• XREF: Said’s Out of Place liminality concept — connects to the reader’s wider postcolonial reading. — connects to: Sharing injustice stories across distance forges empathy and recognition that close moral distance — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 634
• SEED: Angle: the methodological power of shared-marginality in reporting — how insider status surfaces suffering that cameras miss.