In their last days in office, former President Trump and his administration have moved to condemn the Yemeni Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, as a foreign terrorist organization. According to the Los Angeles Times, three of the group’s higher-ups, including leader...
On May 20, 2020, 14-year-old Romina Rashaf prepared to go to sleep as usual, on her family’s farm in northern Iran. Little did she know, she would not live to see the next day. Three weeks earlier, her father, Reza Ashrafi, had called a lawyer, inquiring about the...
According to Business Insider, over 2 million Uyghurs have been forced into internment camps in Xinjiang, an independently controlled area of northwest China. There, they face countless forms of physical and mental abuse. The majority of these camps, which Vox reports...
Short, dark hair frames your delicate, round face. This blunt cut makes you look strong, like you know what you want. I wish I knew what I wanted. I feel like I know you but I cannot say how. You wax and wane, ever changing yet constant, somehow. Unlike the ones who...
One of the greatest figureheads of the Hong Kong protest movement, Joshua Wong, has been sentenced to over a year in prison. Once all members of a now-disbanded pro-democracy group called Demosisto, the New York Times reports that other anti-Beijing icons Agnes Chow...
My stained diary lays open on my bed, adorned with flowers the colors of the sky. It looks like something my grandmother may own. Perhaps a treasure, hidden away and forgotten, amongst her crowded attic. My scent is woven into this book, as the rosy perfume on my...
“Do you ever feel like you’re treated worse because you’re Asian?” my oldest friend asked me the other day. A straightforward question, but one I had to think about. I’ve grown up in a non-diverse neighborhood in Los Angeles: 84.2% of the population is white, 6.5%...
"When I returned home in the evening, I found the body of my mother lying 10 metres away from our house, while the body of my father was burnt inside the house,” Josephat John told BBC. His parents were two of seven Tanzanians killed by a group of villagers in 2014,...
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