Farris Hassan’s (Latest) Excellent Adventures

Remember the Florida high school student who made headlines last year with his secret trip to Baghdad? It turns out he has the travel bug in a big way. According to a profile in this week’s Village Voice, Farris Hassan spent much of this past summer traveling around the U.S., in part to further his goal of becoming a journalist who does “immersion reporting.” Reports Ashley Harrell: “On July, 3 he flew to Denver and hitchhiked from Steamboat Springs to attend the Rainbow Gathering in Routt National Forest. For five days, he immersed himself in the annual itinerant tent city of latter-day hippies. Then Hassan hitchhiked back to the city, where he befriended an alcoholic and a prostitute and checked himself into the Denver Rescue Mission posing as a penniless drifter. Then he flew to Dearborn, Michigan, home of America’s largest mosque, and for two weeks, he assumed the identity of a Jew, hoping to find out whether Muslims there harbored anti-Semitic views. In Detroit, he spent two nights wandering the streets and five more in the Salvation Army’s homeless shelter on skid row.” Oh yeah, Hassan also has his own press agent now—the same one who represents Donald Trump.

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