Refugee Crisis

A Happy Day

By Bradley Gibson | October 2023

Kurdish writer-director Hisham Zaman’s A Happy Day is a darkly comedic and often poignant tale of teen refugees waiting to move on with their…

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Kurdish writer-director Hisham Zaman's A Happy Day is a darkly comedic and often poignant tale of teen refugees waiting to move on with their lives....

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Jacob Thomas Pilgaard's short film, The Deportation of a Model Citizen, presents a face to a global refugee crisis. The Deportation of a Model...

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The average media consumer has a limited attention span when it comes to geopolitical conflicts. Let's take Ukraine as a specimen. In the first few weeks...

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Do you get the sense that political leaders find great joy in sitting safely behind the walls of their capitals, sipping cocktails, and pitting their...

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We call them refugees, and we sympathize over their plights. However, it's easy to forget this large group is comprised of individuals trying to survive in...

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NEW TO HULU! The plight of refugees has been cinematically depicted on numerous occasions - most recently, in films as wide-ranging, soul-shredding, and...

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Unsettled: Seeking Refuge In America documents the resettlement process of four immigrants from Africa and the Middle East, all of whom are LGBTQIA+....

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June 20, 2020 is World Refugee Day as established by the United Nations in 2000 to shine a light on our global refugee crisis. Today, more than 70...

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While I was growing up, running became a part of my life that was (at that point) inexhaustible. It was the most important part of high school because it...

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Bring up the issue of immigration, and many images come to mind: walls, detention centers, cages, etc. But the real issue surrounds the thousands of...

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