Angelina Jolie has become one of the most recognized spokespersons for the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (“UNHCR”). She has been volunteering for the UNHCR since 2001, and has donated millions of dollars and gone on more than 50 field missions. Jolie’s work has focused extensively on Muslim refugees, and having witnessed firsthand the…
Read MoreWe landed at JFK Airport on a sweltering August day twenty-seven years ago. Me, my two younger brothers, and my parents – arriving to stay with a relative in Staten Island until my engineer dad could find a job. From Pakistan my parents had migrated to Saudi Arabia, and at…
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After watching a news program about the plight of Syrian refugees while sitting in her apartment in the suburbs of Beirut, cookbook writer and photographer Barbara Massaad was inspired to visit a refugee camp. “I just wanted to go and see what was happening,” she told NPR. “So I went and started taking photographs…
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Many people have seen the photograph of 18-year-old Arshad Khan, the Afghan Pashtun* worker at an Islamabad tea stand whose photo has gone viral globally. When the image of this tea vendor who had neither a name nor a story attached to him appeared on my social media timeline, I immediately…
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The past two years have seen increasing media attention in Europe and America on the world’s ongoing refugee crisis. Airwaves are deluged with images of desparate people floating in dilapidated boats trying to reach Greece and Italy. Lines of people, dirt streaked and desparate, trudging through fields and forests in…
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