An Officer’s Double Life Puts Germany on Trial
A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.
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A German officer is facing trial on terrorism charges. At a volatile time for Western democracy, his story mirrors the story of Germany itself.
Katrin Bennhold New York Times Dec 2020 20min Permalink
On Los Angeles’s 1985 declaration of “sanctuary status.”
Paul A. Kramer Los Angeles Review of Books Oct 2020 30min Permalink
The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.
Ben Taub The New Yorker Jan 2020 30min Permalink
A refugee's daughter examines identity and spaces.
Sophia Terazawa The Offing Sep 2019 10min Permalink
A friendship born out of the ruins of a nation, a dangerous journey home, and a 40-year search for the truth.
Brent Crane The Atavist Aug 2019 40min Permalink
The Tacoma Refugee Choir founder didn’t anticipate its impact on her—or her city.
James Ross Gardner Seattle Met Jun 2019 20min Permalink
The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.
Scott Sayare GQ Oct 2017 30min Permalink
An excerpt from Hamid's latest novel: a man and a woman caught in between escape and uncertainty.
Mohsin Hamid Granta Magazine Mar 2017 Permalink
How the refugee crisis has made a lot of people very, very rich.
Malia Politzer, Emily Kassie Huffington Post Dec 2016 Permalink
It started as simple teenage rebellion but ended up tearing Syria apart, setting in motion events that continue to rock the Middle East — and the world. The boys behind the graffiti would become unlikely revolutionaries and reluctant refugees. Not all of them would survive the upheaval they helped unleash.
Mark MacKinnon The Globe and Mail Dec 2016 55min Permalink
What it takes to defect from the military state of one of the world’s youngest countries.
Alexis Okeowo New Yorker Dec 2016 35min Permalink
Mary Kuanen escaped the violence of Sudan only to live through her husband’s murder in suburban Denver. This is her life today.
Robert Sanchez 5280 Dec 2016 Permalink
Amarillo accepts more refugees per capita than anywhere in Texas. And as families navigate a new country, Miss Evelyn, a former teacher, helps guide them.
Katy Vine Texas Monthly Nov 2016 35min Permalink
Can new, immersive film technology increase our empathy?
Abe Streep Wired Jul 2016 Permalink
The story of the Refugee Olympic team.
S.L. Price Sports Illustrated Jul 2016 20min Permalink
Across the world, millions of displaced Syrians have been met with hesitation and hostility. Not in Canada.
Jodi Kantor, Catrin Einhorn New York Times Jul 2016 Permalink
More than 4 million Syrians have fled the war. 2,647 have made it to the United States.
Eliza Griswold New York Times Magazine Jan 2016 30min Permalink
A Rwandan refugee grows up in America.
Clemantine Wamariya, Elizabeth Weil Matter Jun 2015 30min Permalink
Two bodies wash up in Northern Europe, wearing identical wetsuits. The search for their identities leads authorities to a camp in Calais.
Anders Fjellberg, Tomm W. Christiansen Dagbladet Jun 2015 40min Permalink
A refugee survives the Rwandan genocide and finds a future in Atlanta.
Paige Williams Atlanta Magazine Oct 2007 40min Permalink
The complexities of offering aid to a Syrian refugee camp.
Joshua Hersh VQR Oct 2014 30min Permalink
Why do Syrian civilians in a Turkish camp live in relative luxury?
Mac McClelland New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink
A potential assassin observes a wave of Zimbabwean refugees.
"They plunge into the Limpopo, sometimes drowning, and, if they survive, rise like mists from the water to cut holes in the border fence into his country. Then they plough through the jungle, and then eventually onto this very road that runs in front of his house. Headed to Jo’burg. What puzzles him, what he would really like to find out, is how they leave no footprints on the earth, make no mark, and drop nothing. And how it is that when they walk, like whispering, they do not cast shadows on the earth."
Noviolet Bulawayo World Pulse Dec 2009 Permalink
A Kosovar refugee must decide between love and family.
David Finkel Washington Post Jun 1999 15min Permalink