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The Refugee-Led Coalition Creating Collective Care
Before the pandemic, refugee-led community-based groups gathered for Cooking Across Generations, an intergenerational storytelling celebration of refugee families who shared memories and rituals of ancestral foods in City Heights, San Diego.
Photo by Rucha Chitnis
Already facing health and education gaps, refugees in San Diego banded together during the pandemic to define their own challenges and create their own solutions.
May 6, 2021
Jama Ahmed Mohamed was 2 years old when his family fled the civil war in Mogadishu, Somalia, and escaped to a refugee camp in Kenya. This became his precarious home, where his family faced alienation and violence as displaced outsiders in the borderlands of two countries. “There’s this feeling of never being settled. …We would build homes, which were set on
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New York Times has renamed its Op-Ed page, instead calling the articles on the page âGuest Essays,â reasoning that the term has become outdated in our digital age.
The Times Opinion Editor Kathleen Kingsbury explained in a piece published recently that opinion page articles were first called âOp-Edsâ because they were printed on the opposite side of the editorial page.
Though many believed they were called âOp-Edsâ because the opinions written were opposite that of the paperâs, Kingsbury wrote that the true purpose of the page was to âstimulate thought and provoke discussion of public problems.â
âThat important mission remains the same. But itâs time to change the name,â Kingsbury wrote. âThe reason is simple: In the digital world, in which millions of Times subscribers absorb the paperâs journalism online, there is no geographical Op-Ed, just as there is no geographical Ed for Op-Ed to be opposi
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As a college student and early graduate, Joles followed stories of Syria s diaspora from Turkey to Lebanon, and Malaysia, before moving to China, where she reported on the protest movement in Hong Kong and the early days of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan. While based in Beijing, she also collaborated with the International Committee of the Red Cross to cover the aftermath of tribal warfare in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Joles has received training from the Dart Center on reporting safely in crisis zones, sponsored by the Rory Peck Trust, the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation, and ACOS Alliance. She is a stringer for Getty Images and a grantee of the International Women s Media Foundation for her project on China s two-child policy.