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In 1985, a 23-year-old graduate of Columbia University was hopping from job to job in New York City trying to make a living. He came across a flyer that announced the upcoming lecture of a civil rights icon at his old alma mater. The alumnus was Barack Obama....
First about a shop that serves falafels at Adams Morgan neighborhood in Washington, DC. On one of its walls hangs a sign with a...
Turks everywhere solemnly honor November 10, 1938 and its anniversaries, as a day of mourning. That’s when the founder of their...
First a little bit of digression: When a Roman general conquered a new land; he was authorized to have a parade through the...
Long before the controversy of whether or not the freed Yezidi women of Islamic State should hold on to their children became a...
To be fair to him, this was not what Behrouz Boochani wanted to do when he was growing up in Kurdistan, Iran. But that is pretty...
If Kurds are your business and their neighbors your concerns, this book is your meat. What some Kurds do in several of his stories will infuriate you. You won’t be wrong to call them the incipient cancer cells of Kurdistan.
Your average Iraqi is 19 years old—so many were not even born when two devastating earthquakes ravaged their country in 1991....
