Our Global Neighborhood
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For many Americans, their first insight into Afghan history and culture came from Khaled Hosseini’s 2003 book, “The Kite Runner.”The book describes the…
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Blessing Ovie was only 12 years old when she left Nigeria seeking a better life. She took a harrowing journey across Africa, ending up not in Europe but…
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Even before the Coronavirus pandemic hit, farmers on the Old Mission Peninsula in Traverse City were already dealing with the one thing they least like to…
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Award-winning, Ukrainian-born soprano Antonina Chehovska wasn’t even thinking about opera until music professors at the Grand Rapids Community College…
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Dr. Nadine Kobty-Hogg was born in Lebanon but had to flee with her parents because of Lebanon’s devastating civil war. Until then, Beirut was known as…
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Steve Jobs, of Apple. Vic Atiyeh, the former governor of Oregon. NPR’s Diane Rehm. Celebrities like Paula Abdul and F. Murray Abraham. They are just a few…
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In 2013, Ahnaf Rabbani was a young boy attending school in Bangladesh. Within a year, that all changed.Ahnaf’s father, Golam, was a human rights lawyer…
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Shortly after arriving in the United States from Peru in the late 1960s, and despite the fact that he wasn’t a U.S. citizen, Dr. Anibal Pepper found…
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Durkhanai Jan (DJ) was born in Pakistan, and her family always encouraged her to follow her dreams. She moved to Michigan from Pakistan in 2001 and earned…