“We need the support of all good will people in the world as we are simply human beings like them”
Naomi Shihab Nye is a poet and professor of Creative Writing at Texas State.Ā Her father was Palestinian and a refugee journalist.…
Many in the U.S. accepted, without adequate investigation or even curiosity, the notion that the U.S. would improve conditions ordinary Iraqis faced following the 2003 invasion
With no hope of being able to return to their homes in the near future, and with no place or family to go to, people seem resigned to their fate. āWe are sick with pain,ā one man told us
Finland is granting residency to only 10% of asylum seekers
The families behind curtains like these, in camps, or in repurposed or unfinished buildings, have for the time a desperately welcomed measure of security
Wherever I look, tall, unfinished concrete buildings, accompanied by construction cranes, loom over the city. It is somewhat eerie because I see no movement inside or around any of the buildings, none whatsoever
Najaf–I returned from Baghdad last night. Over coffee this morning, I filled the father of my host family in on my trip.…
Baghdad–Yesterday was a beautiful autumn day in Baghdad. As I was visiting two families in widely different neighborhoods, I was able to…
Najaf, Iraq — For the past three days I have been trying to get news of the situation in our houses on…
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