By Hannah Stoddard It was August and Dina Oganova was five years old. She and her mother had escaped Tbilisi’s humid afternoons and retreated to Borjomi, a popular mountain town famous for its mineral springs and lush scenery. They rented…
Month: December 2020
Wuhan Regains Vitality, but Its Residents’ Mental Health Recovery Deserves Attention
Psychic Scars Linger in Wuhan after COVID-19 Subsides By CHRISSY ZHU Gutian Bridge, Wuhan, China. Photo: Chen. The traditional Qixi Festival usually comes at the end of August in the Gregorian calendar. In modern Chinese culture, people celebrate this day…
Leaving Beirut: Finding God in a Broken Land
By FARIHA WASTI Fadia Nassar’s past keeps her rooted in Beirut’s homeland and is a part of her identity now, in the United States. Surviving 14 years through a Civil War in Lebanon, her faith gave her the courage to…
Armenia’s New Diaspora Generation Has its Say
By SEVITA RAMA Danica Harootian at the Report the Truth protest and march. Photo: Sanan Panossian. Sanan Panossian, a 28-year-old Armenian-American from San Francisco, California, has activism in her genes. She grew up in the largest Armenian diaspora community in…
Japan Invests in a New Drinking Water Well in Rural Afghanistan
By KAORU NAGASAWA The water and sanitation management system in Afghanistan is worsening due to climate change, which has caused lots of rainfall, flash floods, and clogging of these management systems. Japan Emergency NGO (JEN), is one of the few…
A Civil War’s ‘Silver Lining’
By JORDAN LESSER-ROY In Yemen’s civil war, the governorate of Marib and its youth activists challenge the idea that war must mean total destruction. In March 2015, Sadam Al-Adwar boarded a plane from Pakistan to return to his native Yemen.…
The Occupation Hurts Everyone, Israelis Included
By YVETTE DEANE In the West Bank, Benzion Sanders is outfitted in an IDF uniform as part Nahal Brigade. Source: Benzion Sanders Staring through the slit of his ski mask at the enemy – a 17-year-old Palestinian, handcuffed, blindfolded, and…
Still Here: John Muster of Mentoring Academy
By BENJAMIN BARTU In a Berkeley church, past earth-toned pews, beneath a foyer reserved for community events and club gatherings, on the other side of the wall from a soup kitchen that promises a free chicken curry meal come Friday,…