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November 25, 2018

Ahmad Sadiddin was an agronomist in a region that history books call the Fertile Crescent, an arc around the eastern Mediterranean where settled farming began in ancient times. Iraq and Syria were once part of that productive land before it was torn apart by the horrors of dictatorship, civil wars and the reductionism and …

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As Refugees Await Their Futures, NGOs Offer New Ways to Help Them Prepare

June 22, 2018

by Barbara Crossette

As the school year ends in many countries and children turn with joy to vacation time ahead, millions of other school-age children will have nothing to look forward to but more long days in overcrowded refugee camps. The situation gets worse as they grow into adulthood. Recent studies show that, thanks to United Nations …

Migration, Refugees, Take a Look

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David Miliband on Our Duty to the Strangers in Our Midst: Refugees

December 19, 2017

by Barbara Crossette

David Miliband, a former British foreign secretary, has been president and chief executive of the International Rescue Committee since 2013, overseeing both the agency’s humanitarian relief operations and its refugee resettlement and assistance programs in several American cities. The son of European refugees from Nazi Germany, he just published his first book, “Rescue: Refugees and …

Geopolitics, Poverty, Refugees

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refugees

Where Refugee Scholars, Artists and Activists Find Safety and Thrive

As Refugees Await Their Futures, NGOs Offer New Ways to Help Them Prepare

David Miliband on Our Duty to the Strangers in Our Midst: Refugees

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