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Burned Out With Nowhere To Go

·March 8, 2021
·ReliefLab

Already Combatting COVID, Fires Are Displacing Refugees Across The Globe Originally published 3/5/21 on G20 Interfaith Forum IRUSA Director of Communications & Public Affairs, Christina Tobias-Nahi https://youtu.be/9yS5VnkX_lY In October, I risked flying during the pandemic to see my father who…

Racism as a Public Health Crisis

·January 28, 2021
·ReliefLab

Health experts weigh-in structural racism’s brutal effects The disproportionate number of people from racial minority groups who’re suffering --and dying--from the coronavirus pandemic is hardly a surprise. In fact, accoriding to one expert, Kameelah Mu’Min Rashad of the Muslim Foundation,…

Poem: Water for Life

·September 24, 2020
·ReliefLab

Award Winning Poet Tariq Touré pays tribute to the impact of water projects. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM2SYvYff9w For the dried mouths of newborns And the cops that wait ages To taste the moisture of rain As the clouds form to perform And dance…

Srebrenica: A Look at our Beginning in Bosnia

·July 10, 2020
·ReliefLab

IRUSA reflects on Bosnia and families looking for hope this Qurbani season. burst In 1995, one of the most harrowing tragedies took place in Srebrenica, Bosnia. Over 8,000 Bosnian men and boys were massacred, in just 5 days. Thousands of women went…

COVID-19 Through the Lens of Our Elderly: What Do We Really Need?

·May 1, 2020
·Mayssoun Olabi

A chance for us to gain perspective from our beloved seniors A reality check Our elderly loved ones are the most vulnerable and most likely to suffer death from COVID-19. We must first protect our elderly by distancing as much…

Revisiting the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Hopes and Frustrations with Marwa Aly

·March 27, 2020
·ReliefLab

A journal entry from Trinity College Muslim Chaplain Marwa Aly during her time in Jordan with Syrian refugees IRUSA invited a group of dynamic women community leaders on a visit to Islamic Relief USA’s Projects in Jordan serving Syrian refugees.…

Coping through Art

·December 21, 2018
·Rula Ifteiha

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” -Friedrich Nietzsche The Realities of Trauma What does it mean to be broken? For inanimate objects, broken often equates to beyond repair. A piece of broken glass…

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Burned Out With Nowhere To Go

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