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“I don’t think I’m good at running just because I’m Ethiopian,” says Esu Alemseged, 18. “But I think if it weren’t for the Ethiopian identity, I wouldn’t be running in the first place.” → Read More
A new film explores what it was like to be a high school friend of convicted Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. → Read More
He was trained as a psychiatrist, fancied himself a poet and was known for his flamboyant head of hair. Today he was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 40 years in prison. → Read More
First her son was recruited. Then he left for Syria. When he was killed in the fighting there, this Belgian mother turned to parents in the same situation for solace. → Read More
Belgian writer Ismaël Saidi, now a successful playwright, grew up in Schaerbeek, the same neighborhood as two of the alleged perpetrators. His dream for a nation is one that grows together with education, a love of life and hope for the future. → Read More
It's different when a bomb goes off in a city you know. → Read More
In his just-released memoir a Belgian writer with Moroccan roots uses his experience to bridge cultures. In one chapter, he recounts learning how to slaughter sheep at home for the Muslim holidays. Non-Muslims ask him, “'You did that in your own house?’ “And the Muslims say, ‘Oh yeah, us too.’" → Read More
Youssef Kamand survived the journey from Syria and won asylum in Belgium: Now what? It's harder than you think. → Read More
When Mohammed Salman moved to Belgium to pursue a PhD in political science in 2010, he had every intention of returning home to Syria. But the war intervened, and now the newly-minted Ph.D. is helping start up a program for refugees at the Free University of Brussels. → Read More
She left Darfur when she was a baby but she's been writing about it her whole life. This poetry slam champion reminds us the war there isn't over. → Read More
The last time we were talking about Europe facing "the worst refugee crisis since World War II," we were talking about people fleeing the war in Bosnia. Some of them made their way to the United States, where they are still adapting, and sometimes still longing for home. → Read More
The scent of home lured a character in my father's favorite book. Finally, after more than a half a lifetime away, he too found his way to the land of his youth. → Read More
Forget the image of the newspaper delivery boy of old — these days it's more likely to be an adult driver throwing the paper on to your porch. It's part-time work so it's good for people who need more than one job to get by, and immigrants often fit the bill. → Read More
Luna Acharya Mulder has a rare window on the refugee psyche. She and her sisters grew up in New York but all of her cousins grew up in refugee camps in Nepal. Every summer, she went back and forth between two vastly different worlds. → Read More
The woman tasked with revamping language education in the Boston Public Schools grew up in East L.A. with a mother who was punished for speaking Spanish in elementary school. → Read More
How culturally-sensitive mental health care helped this Somali American teenager stay resilient. → Read More
We don't hear much about Belgium when it comes to Europe's migrant crisis, but it too is struggling to cope with an influx of foreigners arriving to claim asylum. In Brussels, volunteers are opening up their homes to refugee families so they don't have to sleep in the streets while they wait for the appointments with immigration officials. → Read More
The climate in Brussels after the Paris attacks has one business owner planning to paint over the word "Syrian" on his shopfront. → Read More
Student protesters in South Africa are chalking up another victory in their "decolonization" campaign. Stellenbosch University, once a bastion of apartheid ideology, has agreed to stop teaching in Afrikaans and switch to English as the main language of instruction. → Read More
How running, meditation, a news blackout and a visit to Gallipoli helped a middle school social studies teacher recover after she was wounded by shrapnel in the Boston Marathon bombings. Oh, and a wicked sense of humor. → Read More