"I have to do this." Moroccan to have hymen resewn

BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [this story was originally published by Reuters on April 29, 2007, and ran in dozens of news outlets around the world, including Washingtonpost.com, Boston.com and NYTimes.com] to the companion lead story "Muslim women in France...

Muslim women in France 'regain' virginity in clinics

BY ALEXANDRA STEIGRAD, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [this story was originally published by Reuters on April 29, 2007, and ran in dozens of news outlets around the world, including Washingtonpost.com, Boston.com and NYTimes.com] to the companion story "'I have to do this.' Moroccan...

Interview with Gunay Evinch

BY EMRE PEKER, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Excerpted interview with Gunay Evinch, president of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations and Washington, D.C.-based attorney whose practice concentrates on matters relating to Turkey and the surrounding region. He is a second...

Turkish students discover individualism in the U.S.

BY EMRE PEKER, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE  [to the companion interview with Gunay Evinch, "The changing role of Young Turks in the U.S."] Serdar Özenalp arrived in Charlottesville, Va., around midnight after a 20-hour journey from Istanbul, Turkey. He hailed a cab with two...

Sierra Leone's amputees: A refugee in Chicago

BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE After a decade long war, many of Sierra Leone's war wounded still slog through life, depending on handouts for survival. These two companion stories contrast the life of one...

Sierra Leone's amputees: Those left to beg

BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE After a decade long war, many of Sierra Leone's war wounded still slog through life, depending on handouts for survival. These two companion stories contrast the life of one...

Nuevo New Orleans: Latino Immigrants Remake the Crescent City

BY PETER HOLDERNESS, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Fernando Saucedo crossed the U.S.-Mexico border on July 4, 2005, headed for Houston. The farmer from Zacatecas joined a constant stream of Mexicans, Central and South...

Armando Aguiar: An Immigrant's Story

Daughter Luiza Aguiar and her niece, Rachel Aguiar, tell the story of Armando Aguiar's journey from India to the United States.

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