BY SABRINA MONDSCHEIN What Mohammed Ahmed did in Darfur did not sound revolutionary, but it may have cost him the chance to return home. One by one, he and a handful of colleagues at their Nyala clinic documented each case…
Author: Thanassis Cambanis
Exiled From Iran
BY JEFFREY BERMAN Behzad Yaghmaian, an Iranian author and economist living in New York City, last visited Iran in 1998. Unlike previous trips home, this time Yaghmaian knew this time that returning to Iran again would be difficult, perhaps impossible.…
Caught in the Crossfire
BY NATHANIEL PARISH FLANNERY In the thick yellow light of early evening, standing on the bluff next to the high school in the small Texas town of Roma, you can look out over the Rio Grande River and see into…
Uninvited Guests
BY MATTHEW LUCAS The soldiers beating on the thick iron door yelled for Isa Sakaev to surrender. Two of his sisters, Khutmat and Lursa, barefoot and in the clothes they had slept in, stood outside, surrounded by Federal and pro-government…
An Accidental Career Helping in Chechnya
BY MATTHEW LUCAS Gistam Sakaeva’s career in humanitarian work began, in 1995, “by accident” in the refugee camps of Dagestan during the First Chechen War. Sakaeva, an unassuming single mother of two young children, is a Chechen humanitarian aid worker…
From Beirut to Beer
BY WHITNEY EULICH One month before the birth of his first child, Steve Hindy was kidnapped by the Southern Lebanon Army (SLA). He was an Associated Press foreign correspondent covering an Irish battalion of UN Peacekeeping forces. This was the…
Jam and Famine
BY WHITNEY EULICH Moodie was 12 years old, when Germany invaded France. As World War II engulfed Europe, her father sent Moodie and her three sisters and mother to live in the family’s summer home in Chamonix, near the Swiss…
The Mustache Brothers
BY STEPHEN GRAY Lu Maw is in pain. A toothache has robbed him of food, sleep and sanity; only a health professional can bring relief. Summoning the last of his strength he escapes across the Burmese border to Thailand, hoping…
Creating Safe, Sustainable Refugee Camps: The Beyond Firewood Initiative
BY FAITH MCCOLLISTER For a woman living in a refugee camp, whipping up a quick lunch for her family is anything but simple. The problem is not finding food — she probably already has a bag of rations stamped with…
Chatter Chatter
BY SHUBHA BALA Sweating upstairs in my private room, waiting for anything, waiting for 604800 seconds. An entire week. The autobiography of Gandhi, with its Indian pages, too thin and too smooth, sprawled out on the floor beside my bed. …