Non-resident Aliens/ Resident Non-aliens

"Non-resident Alien" is a US tax designation for individuals who do not hold permanent residency status or US citizenship, which applied to Sajad upon arriving in the US as an international student. The project "Language is not Innocent" explores the uncertainty and ambiguity in language and its dramatic sociopolitical impact through semiotics. Interestingly, scrambling the order of "Non-resident alien" yields "Resident non-alien," which has an almost opposite meaning in both English and Farsi.