Zarlasht Halaimzai joins host Krys Boyd to discuss her life growing up amid the bombs and guns of the war in Afghanistan, and her work to help heal the trauma of children living through conflict worldwide.
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The systems that failed to help a refugee family
ProPublica reporter Kartikay Mehrotra tells the story of a 14-year-old Afghan boy who took his own life and the federal resettlement program ill-equipped to help Afghan refugees.
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Refugees Revived This Dying Town
Cynthia Anderson, journalist and teacher of writing at Boston University, joins us to talk about Lewiston, Maine — a city that has transformed itself through the arrival of African Muslim refugees.
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No Place To Call Home
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen joins us to talk about the many obstacles that can stand in the way of making a new home in a foreign place.
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A Refugee Wins The Immigration Lottery
Abdi Nor Iftin joins us to tell his amazing story of fleeing Mogadishu for Kenya, winning an American visa in a lottery and learning that making his way here was more complicated than he thought.
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No Place To Call Home
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen joins us to talk about the many obstacles that can stand in the way of making a new home in a foreign place.
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Syrian Refugees Are Still Dying
Dr. Seema Jilani joins us to talk about the dangers experienced by those fleeing Syria and other war-torn countries.
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The Real Story Of Refugees
David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, talks about the political will required to save refugees.
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Handling The Refugee Crisis
This hour, in partnership with the World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth, we’ll talk about how the refugee question is playing out across the globe and here in North Texas.
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The Conversation On Refugees
This hour, we’ll get an update on the topic from NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving, and we’ll talk about the history of how presidents have handled refugees and immigrants with Jeffrey Engel, Director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU.
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The Rights of Refugees
This hour, we’ll talk about how applying for asylum in the United States could be made easier with Bill Holston of Human Rights Initiative of North Texas and Mariam Bojang, a refugee from Gambia who successfully attained asylum.
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Music And Liberation
Pianist Mona Golabek writes about how her mother narrowly escaped the Nazis of war-torn Vienna in ‘The Children of Willesden Lane: Beyond the Kindertransport: A Memoir of Music, Love, and Survival.’
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