If we seek to change the Arabs' perception about where the U.S. really stands, a subtle shift in our public narrative needs to be articulated to mitigate the current perception which suggests extreme biases in favor of Israel, resulting in further erosion of the U.S.' regional influence.
That narrative needs to be about character, not positions; presidential votes are driven by gut feelings, not issue arithmetic.
For starters, Oliver Brandes, co-director of the Water Sustainability Project at the University of Victoria, tells me Canada's "water-rich" narrative needs to be debunked.
Counter-narratives need to be equally diverse in order to quell the allure of extremist propaganda, and they should not have a gender bias.
Narratives need to be about co-operation on common ground – and solutions need to be presented that can speak to the common concerns and aspirations of all people.
If policy choices are to deal with the underlying issues, then the alternative values, guiding assumptions and scalar strategies encompassed by rival narratives need to be appraised and reconciled with the specific livelihood challenges of rural people and the need to secure an inclusive and equitable society in a changing global environment.
The death of Detroit is, of course, not confirmed and is a narrative that needs to be challenged".
However, the unfortunate circumstances of my mother's condition shed light on an important narrative which needs to be fully realized in communities of color -- that Black health and Black access to quality health care matters.
"There is another narrative other than just the slave narrative that needs to be told.
She has never been able to before, she says, because she felt that "in order to write 1st Person narrative there needs to be a fixed self or persona and by refusing to believe in this I was merging with the fragmented reality of the time.
