Tag: refugees
Fair Refuge
The treatment of refugees and other migrants trying to enter supposedly civilized countries has reached new lows recently with more deaths worldwide, including at...
Speaking of Migration
The recent discovery that Japanese, Korean, and even Turkish all evolved from language spoken by millet farmers just 9,000 years ago in what is...
One Word
When I stood in front of a room of adult refugees with a wide range of life experience who spoke five different languages, and...
Arabic Sesame Street Aims to Help Refugees
A brand-new, locally produced version of Sesame Street or Ahlan Simsim (“Welcome Sesame” in Arabic) premieres this month on regional children’s TV station MBC3,...
Booksellers Donate Spanish Books to Refugees
The American Booksellers Association arranged for booksellers, authors, and publishers attending its Winter Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to donate Spanish-language books for refugees...
French Strikes Positive Chord with Migrants
As Europe struggles to deal with the influx of refugees fleeing conflicts in North Africa and the Middle East, opinions are polarizing between those...
Educating Young Haitian Refugees
Children under 18 years old make up almost half of Haiti's population of 9 million. As many as 8,000 schools that served 1.8 million...
