RELATED: Olympics for Kids The 2016 Olympics in Rio started last Friday, and the television is always on at our house. This is very unusual for us, but we made an exception so we can cheer on our favorite Arabic speaking athletes at the 2016 Olympics Games. At the 2016 Rio Games, there are 486 …
Scanning through articles and posts about the brutality of the civil war in Syria and the subsequent refugee crisis, I see openings like, “The world is shocked as…,” and “The world stood still in horror at…”. I’m there with them. When I finally looked at the photo of Aylan Kurdi, I sobbed for an hour, …
I have sat and watched in horror as pictures that reminded me of my history lessons back in high school were played out in the nightly news for the last 4 years. Syria, a country of 23 million people surrounded by nations in turmoil, was in civil war. Villages, towns, cities left in a mass …
