By: María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize| Arab America Contributing Writer Sara Aridi: Some critics may see the film as “poverty porn” Nadine Labaki: All I can tell them is: “Get real. Get out of your cage where you’re writing your critique and go out into the world and see what’s happening around you.” What you see in … Continued
Chef Majed Abdulraheem is part of a D.C. delivery service’s network of immigrant chefs SOURCE: EATER WASHINGTON DC BY: DAYANA SARKISOVA As the lunch rush builds on a recent Friday morning at the Whole Foods in Foggy Bottom, a line forms around the Syrian shawarma stand manned by chef Majed Abdulraheem. He’s prepared a cart … Continued
SOURCE: STEP FEED BY: RAYANA KHALAF A Syrian girl fled her war-torn country with her family, only to be met by students who allegedly bullied her into taking her own life. In March, 9-year-old Amal Alshteiwi was found dead after facing verbal and physical abuse by her classmates in Calgary, Canada. Her grieving parents recently spoke upabout their … Continued
When Ben Quilty and Richard Flanagan saw a picture by six-year-old Heba, they knew they had to share it with the world SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN BY: BEN QUILTY In 2016, with my friend Richard Flanagan, I stopped at a transit station halfway across Serbia. It was a clear day – blue sky from horizon to … Continued
Autobiography tells story of how she helped save fellow refugees stranded on dinghy before inspiring the world at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games SOURCE: THE NATIONAL BY: DAVID CROSSLAND A Syrian girl who helped save fellow refugees stranded on an inflatable dinghy in the Aegean Sea, and later competed in swimming at the 2016 … Continued
Voice of America There are an estimated 1.1 million Syrian refugees in Lebanon, 500,000 of them are children. For many of them, getting enough food and water are their biggest challenges. Children who are hearing impaired face even bigger obstacles. But some of them are getting help, thanks to a U.S. based charity called Deaf … Continued
By Wayne State University School of Medicine A study launched by Wayne State University School of Medicine researchers six months ago to determine the mental health impact and biological correlation of civil war trauma on Syrian refugees now living in the United States shows that 30 percent of adult refugees experience post-traumatic stress disorder and … Continued
By Natasha Hall The Washington Post I conducted one of my last interviews as an immigration officer with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in Istanbul with Mahmoud and his 8-year-old son from Aleppo, Syria. His son had lost his legs in the explosion that killed Mahmoud’s wife, sister and other children. It was supposed … Continued
By Andrew Schmertz NJTV News Twelve-year-old Mohammed Djougal — who lost a leg and an arm — barely survived a bomb attack in his hometown in Syria. His father, Marwan Djougal, knew at that point, they had to escape the country and make it to the United States. “It was an exploding barrel on the … Continued
By Sean Yoder Indiana Gazette Nashwan Abdullah wants to be a composer. He said he also wants to be an actor, director and writer — and perhaps even continue his journalism career. The 25-year-old Syrian is studying for his master’s degree in the Indiana University of Pennsylvania department of music. He escaped a war to … Continued
Photo: Samir When she was three years old, my daughter Amal would repeatedly tell me “When I grow up, I want to be a doctor, so that you will work with me”. Years went-by and Amal graduated as a dentist in May 2015 from Boston University. As a resident at the prestigious University of Texas … Continued
By: Barbara Nimri Aziz When a former Syrian student of mine, Walid, announced that he’d resolved to pay smugglers to get him to Europe, I thought of his classmates and so many youths I hear from, now scattered across the globe. I’d known them in Damascus where I’d been teaching workshops in media. I stayed … Continued
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