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Iraq Talks Back In Long Beach: Scholars Talk Popular Movements In Iraq

Dec. 9, 2015 / By Michelle Siebert
Tags: muslim, Refugee, Refugees

The violence of war and its consequences in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq have caused thousands of refugees to leave their home, but it all started in Iraq.

Loung Vy: Gardening Through Struggle

Sep. 26, 2011 / By Cheeravath Aphipunyo
Tags: Cambodian American, Cheeravath Aphipunyo, Elder Profiles, Khmer Rouge, Refugee

Loung Vy sits in her garden. Photo by Sophinarath Cheang.

My grandmother Loung Vy is approaching yet another milestone in her life — her seventy-year mark...

Bunsorng Tay: Maintaining Cultural Legacies

Aug. 26, 2011 / By
Tags: Art, Arts, Cambodian American, Elder Profiles, Khmer Rouge, Refugee, Sophinarath Cheang, Traditional Arts

Written By Sophinarath Cheang, Voicewaves Youth Journalist

Bunsorng Tay in his home.

Bunsorng Tay is sixty-three years old...