An interfaith demand for justice in Palestine and Israel
Tag: syria
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White? Asian? African? Chicagoans with Middle Eastern and North African roots feel erased by census
Local groups say it’s essential for people to participate even if they don’t see a racial/ethnic category on the form that fits them.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Deconstructing the perpetual war machine
How Democrats and Republicans keep us constantly engaged in conflict.
Posted inNews & Politics
‘The house is yours’
Resettlement agencies say refugees are moving to the suburbs in search of cheaper homes and better-paying jobs.
Posted inFilm
Starring a cast of nonactors, Capernaum examines the lives of refugees in a Beirut slum
Nadine Labaki’s drama is almost too much realism to bear.
Posted inNews & Politics
Report from a Syrian refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan
An excerpt from the comics journalism collection Escaping Wars and Waves.
Posted inBlogs
Local Syrian-American doctors support Trump’s missile strikes, despite skepticism
These Chicago-area doctors are concerned about president’s next step, but desperate for an end to the bloody civil war.
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Teaching Chicagoans that in Rojava, resistance is life
At a talk Saturday, an intrigued local audience showed support for the radical leftist Kurdish utopia in Syria.
Posted inNews & Politics
After Trump’s air strikes, a Syrian asylum seeker remembers revolution and imprisonment in Damascus
Abu Shadi, who survived torture by the Assad regime, says he feels torn between Trump and an apathetic world.
Posted inBlogs
Prosecutors want to put ex-CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett in prison for more than seven years, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Mariachi Project is working to preserve Mexican culture among local students.
Posted inBlogs
On Brian Williams’s terrible ‘beauty’ gaffe
The new anchor tried, and failed, to capture something complicated.
Posted inArts & Culture
Osama Alomar describes the Syrian conflict one very short story at a time
The emigre writer looks for peace of mind in America.
Posted inArts & Culture
Three selections from The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
Three short stories from Syrian writer Osama Alomar’s book The Teeth of the Comb & Other Stories
Posted inFood & Drink
Chicago finally gets its first Kurdish restaurant
The proprietors hail from a province on Turkey’s southern border with Syria, but the Gundis is no Turkish restaurant.
Posted inBlogs
Some Syrian refugees arrive in Chicago at last
After a long wait, prolonged by the Trump executive order, a family finally makes it to Chicago.