Tag: afghan refugees
Resident Spotlight: Afghan refugee finds solace through helping fellow immigrants
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
Faheem Ahmad moved to the City of Alexandria several years ago as an Afghan refugee. The process was grueling, extensive...
Your Views: Honoring our Afghan partners
To the editor:
Last month marked the one-year anniversary of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. A year ago, President Joe Biden summed up his deadly shambolic...
Classical songs, modern meanings
By Liana Hardy | [email protected]
One year ago, conductor Negin Khwalpak and her husband Hamid Habib Zada fled Afghanistan for the United States with only...
Afghan refugees face job struggles
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
When the United States closed the last of our military bases in Afghanistan last summer after more than 20 years in...
Our View: Aiding Afghan refugees is a love story
This is a love story with many facets.
Not romantic love as in “Love Story” the movie, but rather the love of one neighbor for...
RAFT volunteers work around the clock to support Afghan refugees
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
In late July 2021, a friend strongly urged Arafat Safi to flee his home in Afghanistan. Rumblings of a Taliban takeover...
