Yemen is on the edge of a cliff. Will COVID-19 push it over?
By Giancarlo Atassi, MPH; Nina Zhou, BA; and Alexandra Isaia, BS COVID-19 continues to take a significant toll on the global community. In the United [...]
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Forced from Home: One Year Later
By Sheila Burt In the fall of 2018, Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF) held the interactive exhibition “Forced from Home” in the Daley Plaza to [...]
Using Stories to Humanize the Refugee Crisis
By Sheila Burt Following a brief post in September, Sheila Burt reports in more detail on “Forced From Home,” a Doctors Without Borders exhibition that aims to educate [...]
“Forced from Home” seeks to personalize the lives of global refugees
By Sheila Burt In the Daley Plaza courtyard, a series of tents portray what life is like for the millions of people around the globe being forced to flee their homes due to [...]
Stepping into a Paradigm Shift and Finding a Glimmer of Hope in Lebanon
Anna Maitland, JD, MA In March of this year, a nine-person research team from Northwestern University’s Pritzker and Kellogg schools – consisting of law and business [...]
The Forgotten Adolescent Syrian Refugees; Who Can They Turn To?
By Salma Taleb Since the beginning of the Syrian war in late 2011, more than 4.8 million Syrians have escaped to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt. While a few [...]
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