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Refugees of Iraq

Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery

Arts, Culture & Media

Refugees from Syria and Iraq help visitors at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology make connections between history and the present day.

The main atrium of this would-be mall is now home to hundreds of Iraqis from villages outside Mosul. Here the concrete floors and walls give families more protection than the displaced families living in tents in a public park just across the street.

Erbil’s abandoned construction sites are a ‘saving grace’ for refugees

Conflict

Iraqi refugees living in the US watch their home country closely

Conflict & Justice
Syrian refugees

Syrians who once took in Iraqi refugees find the tables have turned

Conflict & Justice

Jordan struggling as Syrian refugees stream across the border

Syrian violences leaves Iraqi refugees in extended limbo

With violence in Syria preventing American officials from entering the country to interview Iraqi refugees, many are stuck in Syria with no way to join their families in the United States.

Iraqi Refugees in the US Reflect on War’s Anniversary

Conflict & Justice

The war in Iraq officially ended nearly a year and a half ago. But refugees from the conflict are still being admitted to the US by the thousands. Reporter Adrian Florido of the Fronteras public radio partnership reports.

What We Carried

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War.   While looking back on the war’s impact, last week we started a conversation about the books that first helped you comprehend war. In that discussion, many  listeners cited “The Things They Carried,” Tim O’Brien’s moving fictional account of the Vietnam War. Takeaway listener Jim […]

The Plight of Iraqi Refugees in Syria

Global Politics

The unrest in Syria is creating new problems for Iraqi refugees living there. It’s making it harder for them to get authorization to be resettled in the US.

The Lives of Iraqi Refugees in the US

In the years since the start of the war in Iraq, thousands of Iraqis have fled their homes and sought refuge in neighboring countries like Jordan and Syria, but also here in the United States. San Diego, California is home to one of the largest Iraqi populations in the country, but many of them are […]