“Pushing the Elephant” is a documentary about Rose Mapendo from the Democratic Republic of Congo and her 17-year old daughter Nangabir. Watch the trailer here. The creator says, “This intimate family portrait unfolding against the wider drama of war tackles the long-term and often hidden effects of conflict […]
Bridging Cultures – Muslim Journeys is a new reading list created by the NEH in collaboration with the American Library Association. This is a reading list for general readers and is a good resource for high school and college students. It includes House of Stone by Anthony Shadid, […]
As I talk with readers about The Good Braider, we inevitably come to talk about South Sudanese family’s desire to return to South Sudan now that it’s an independent nation. And then we talk about latest news of Sudan’s “relentless aerial attacks” in the unmarked border regions between Sudan […]
My friend who served as a reader for The Good Braider, Rashida Mohammed, posted this video and I wanted to share it here. It shows a UNHCR child transit center in a refugee camp on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan.
…hosted a conversation about welcoming immigrants. WSCA’s Radio Gazette invited Dr. Susan Craig, an educator, and me, a writer. We had both worked in Portland, Maine. Susan directed a program to train educators to work with students from all over the world, and I taught at the Salt […]
Okay, Tom and the teachers at Portland High, this is for you. I joined the teachers for their Book Club in which they’d read THE GOOD BRAIDER. We talked about many themes in the book. Then English teacher Tom Talarico had the idea that if he used the […]
I’M YOUR NEIGHBOR is the name of a website and a concept. Kirsten Cappy is the creator. Ann Sibley O’Brien and I are on the I’m-Your-Neighbor team, and we’re writers of books that Kirsten features on this new site which is about creating events around children’s and YA […]
I am terribly excited for this book that reviewers are beginning to respond to with admiration for the young protagonist. (“This is a story of courage, not just Viola’s but all immigrants.” from Finding Wonderland) More than one reviewer has said that they never review a book before […]
My novel, The Good Braider, is based on dozens of oral histories as well as much research about Sudan. I want to tell you about a play whose script is created around oral histories of immigrants. “Dreaming Again,” commissioned by the NH Humanities Council and written by Genevieve Aichele, […]
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