By Evette JahangiriThis poem is dedicated to Alan Kurdi and all the other children that have lost their lives at sea. Whenever a child has a nightmare We speak the dream into water Water will lure away the mare and only leave night behind We have spoken all our dreams into water Be it a faucet or a river The hope that our…
By Evette JahangiriSomething so small had made it so far from home – that all that raging water could carry something so gentle.” Mohamed Hassan, “Secrets of the Sea” On September 2nd, 2015, Nilufer Demir captured an image that would change the world. The image was of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, lying in the sand on the shores…
By akhalilThis past weekend, Pope Frances visited Lesbos, a Greek island filled with Syrian refugees. He returned to Italy with twelve Syrian refugees. The twelve refugees are three Muslim families whose homes were bombed in Syria. Out of the twelve refugees, six of them are children. “The Vatican will take responsibility for bringing in and maintaining the…
