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Iraqi refugees in Egypt seek secure education
BY SETARREH MASSIHZADEGAN, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Magdi is different from the other four million Iraqi refugees who have been displaced since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. That he has survived a kidnapping in which he was left for dead may not make him distinct. Magdi was born...Re-educating North Koreans in South Korea
BY MATT RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE [to the sidebar story, "The Perilous Road to Seoul"] With longish hair, strategically torn jeans, and a thin frame wrapped in a blue sweatshirt, Dong Seok Kim easily blends...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...Hundreds march for immigration reform
""We are not here out of anger, we are here out of compassion," said Alejandro Chavez, Arizona chair of the United Farm Workers, organizer of the march. "We just want to make immigration affordable and accessible...Scramble for Africa: Asian inroads into East Africa
BY MRINALINI REDDY, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Asian immigration to Africa came about when the late nineteenth century "Scramble for Africa" began. The territories that Britain conquered in the late 19th century in...
Indian return to Uganda
BY MRINALINI REDDY, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE A family friend Goswami Debarata, from Calcutta, has been a resident for about ten years and plans to go back in a few years. Debolina Choudhary had been married only a few... 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...
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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... Cambodia's Vietnamese Community Drawn into Sex Industry
BY MATTHEW RUSLING, MEDILL NEWS SERVICE Just as there is a pizza shop or deli on every corner in New York City, so too there is there sex for sale almost everywhere you look in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. On the infamous street no. 63, customers meander nonchalantly in and out of...
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Bana Bana and a new era for global remittances
BY ALEXANDER KNETIG, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE A lonely man is crossing the Savannah in his wooden horse cart, hand-painted in red, yellow and green, the national colous of Senegal. In this... Maids for sale on the Lebanese market
BY ELISE BARTHET, SCIENCES PO, SPECIAL TO THE MEDILL NEWS SERVICE We stopped the car at an anonymous-looking building just outside Beirut that nearly disappeared behind an enormous yellow billboard. A blue drawing covers half the space of the ad. It pictures an Asian woman...
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