Jordan Media Institute, journalist push back on stereotypes, press for media literacy in Middle East
"There are opportunities also," said Elemary. "We can't always talk about refugees as problems."
Migrant film festival, Jordan media literacy program and Canada’s “Media Smarts” receive UNESCO awards
A project that helped refugees tell their stories in film, a literacy education program in one of the world’s most media-challenged nations and a “pioneer” in media literacy in Canada were honored today by UNESCO.
Without fanfare, Trump issues revised travel ban
The revised ban temporarily blocks immigration from six Muslim-majority countries — Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen — and omits Iraq, which was on the original list.
EXPLAINER: Breaking down today’s new immigration rules on undocumented, DACA, smuggling, border wall
The White House predicts up to one million undocumented Americans are eligible for immediate deportation, while the Los Angeles Times recently put the number much higher, at eight million.
45for45: Lebanon high school students speak out on Muslim ban
Students at Houssam Eddine Hariri High School in Saida, Lebanon, produced this video from what they call "a land of diversity," with their message on being young and Muslim.
OPINION: Struggle against Muslim travel ban is exactly what it means to be American
For me, the most uncomfortable feeling I’ve ever encountered — and continue to encounter — is feeling unwelcome in my own home. And thanks to the executive order on immigration and refugees that President Donald Trump signed last Friday, this painful feeling shows no sign of dissipating.
Here Today project quotes Trump on #RefugeeBan: ‘It’s not going to be pretty’
"Here Today," our just-finished digital storytelling project in Paris, gives a human backstory and predicts the chaos that erupted after an executive order on immigration signed by President Donald Trump last Friday.
OPINION: One week after #WomensMarch, it’s time to hit the road
With the travel ban on Muslims and the end of the U.S. refugee resettlement program announced just yesterday, now is another time for young people to act — Jews and Muslims, Latino/as and LGBTQ, and every other American who is being targeted, mistreated, marginalized and stopped at the border.
STORYMAP: The journey of Rahman Amiri
When we read an article about a refugee’s journey, we don’t get the same impression as when we actually talk to the person who took the steps to flee his country for another place.
Soccer game unites American School of Paris, asylum seekers
A calculation by ASP sophomore Anabella Prosperi using information from Association Pierre Claver and player interviews revealed that Claver players traveled a combined 98,179 kilometers from Afghanistan, Libya, Sudan and Syria, where they lived before they were forced to migrate.