The topic of Ali's book couldn't be more timely. "We are now witnessing the highest levels of displacement on record," according to the U.N. Refugee Agency. What's more, Somalia is one of only ...

Many of the apartments had Somali and other refugees, or really poor Americans, and were publicly subsidized. We paid the market rate because we all had green cards and could work. My plan was to ...

A former Somali refugee intent on bringing books and education to his compatriots languishing in sprawling camps in Kenya was recently named the winner of the UN refugee agency's prestigious ...

Somalia or Iraq. In her new book, “City of Refugees: The Story of Three Newcomers Who Breathed Life Into a Dying American Town,” Susan Hartman illuminates the humanity of these outsiders while ...

I found it difficult to connect with my refugee self. I really distanced myself from my Somali identity,” she confesses. “However, writing this book has changed that. It has allowed me to ...

A Minnesota dad is taking matters into his own hands after he couldn't find a children's book to read to ... after he was born in Somalia and raised in a refugee camp. Now, he's a proud father ...

I was born in Somalia, lived in Yemen for a long ... have been here who may not understand the experience of refugees-- besides reading books, I feel like personal instruction is really important.

"North", a novel by Brad Kessler imagines a Somali refugee hiding in a Vermont monastery. NCPR book reviewer, Betsy Kepes, talked with Northern Light co-host Todd Moe about the book. Betsy ...

A former Somali refugee intent on bringing books and education to his compatriots languishing in sprawling camps in Kenya was on Tuesday named the winner of the UN refugee agency’s prestigious ...

On this week’s Scheer Intelligence, Boyah Farah, a young refugee from Somalia’s hellish civil war describes ... But instead, as described in his just-published book, “America Made me a Black Man: A ...

Most of the following books were written by forcibly displaced authors; some by writers who champion the stories of refugees. The books may be memoirs, novels, or narrative nonfiction, but all the ...

June 20 is World Refugee Day. The United Nations created ... Lama was named a writer to watch by CBC Books in 2022. Angry Queer Somali Boy is a memoir by Mohamed Abdulkarim Ali.