Iraq

9/11 Remembering and Learning at FOR

At the Fellowship of Reconciliation’s national headquarters on the banks of the Hudson River, our interfaith staff were gathered for our weekly Tuesday morning meditation. It was September 11, 2001. We had planned an orientation afterward for four young adults

September 9, 2021 No Comments

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous

October 26, 2018 No Comments

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

Nadia Murad, now a United Nation Goodwill Ambassador on Trafficking of Persons, is the co-laureate of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2014, when she was 21, she and her neighbors in a predominantly Yazidi village in the Simjar mountainous

October 26, 2018 No Comments

Christmas in Karbala

Karbala, Iraq–It is Christmas day, and I am in Karbala with dear friends. We awoke to a second day of rain, and pictures of flooding, especially in Baghdad, are being shown on TV. Yesterday, on Christmas-eve, several tents caught fire

December 24, 2016 No Comments

Iraq

9/11 Remembering and Learning at FOR

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

Nadia Murad: A Yazidi Voice Against Slavery

Christmas in Karbala

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