Dec 24, 2018
It’s Day 8 of Community Supported Film’s 10 day New Immigrant and Refugee Visions (NIRV) film fest. Today, Abdirahman Abdi brings us an excerpt from his world in Worlds Apart at Home. Abdi emigrated as a refugee from Somalia in 2007. NIRV is a...
Nov 12, 2017
By Bryan Woolston, October 28, 2017, for Rueters About 300 white nationalists and neo-Nazis held back-to-back rallies in two small Tennessee cities on Saturday to protest refugee resettlement in the state, which sued the federal government over the issue earlier this...
Jan 14, 2017
Jamila Afghani, who has battled discrimination since childhood, uses Islam to empower women in Afghanistan. She is committed to continuing the work despite threats and other obstacles. Today, according to Afghani, about 20 percent of Kabul’s mosques have special...
Sep 27, 2016
Maeva Bambuck and Sedika Mojadidi in Mazar-i-Sharif Wednesday 4 November 2015 05.32 EST https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/04/afghanistan-imams-defy-taliban-spread-contraception-condoms The imams, the Taliban and the condoms – video by Maeva...
Nov 21, 2012
Follow along with Michael Sheridan’s second journal entry from the radio documentary training in Kabul, Afghanistan for the Afghan staff of America Abroad Media (AAM). (The first journal entry can be read here.) Saturday’s training reviewed principles of...
