Madison’s Andaleeb Cartonera honors Palestinian endurance with handmade books
Andaleeb Cartonera's first Bookmaking Workshop in August 2024. Bookcovers hanging on the line to dry. It was the summer of 2024, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine entered its tenth month. The UW-Madison Gaza solidarity encampment, which experienced...
Without enough time to pray, Muslim Amazon workers rally for fair treatment
Khadra Ibrahin, a 28-year-old single mother of two and Somali immigrant living in Minneapolis, has been working at Amazon’s Shakopee fulfillment center for two years. As a practicing Muslim, Ibrahin tries to pray five times a day. But because Amazon has...
Photo Essay: SAMS volunteers bring urgent medical services to war weary
For the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) trip in November, photographers documented each day of the mission. At the SAMS Mental Health Center in Anjar, one young speech therapy patient had a special interest in the photographer’s camera. For Mazen,...
Video from Lebanon: Wisconsin doctors share their experience helping refugees
Dr. Najeeb and Dr. Katib from Wisconsin joined the November Medical Mission to Lebanon, organized by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), to alleviate the suffering of hundreds of Syrian refugees who escaped the nearly decade-long civil war in their...
Volunteer medical services provide Syrian refugees with needed chronic care
Chronic care is beyond the capacity of many nonprofit health organizations, as well as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) due to high costs and limited funding. Most organizations are limited to providing basic primary care for...
Wisconsin doctors join medical volunteers treating Syrian refugees in Lebanon
The Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) began its November Medical Mission to Lebanon with stops in Tripoli, the Beka'a Valley, and at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut. For this trip, 10 volunteers from Lebanon and 15 from the United States...
Attacks on health care in Syria add to ongoing social devastation
Attacks on medical facilities are a violation of international humanitarian law, but that has not deterred armed forces from systematically and deliberately attacking health centers in Syria. Between 2011 and 2017, there were 492 attacks on healthcare in...
After surviving the civil war, Syrian refugees suffer devastating trauma
The psychosocial impacts of being a refugee are so widespread, they have reached epidemic proportions. But recognition or aid for those problems still fail to get the same resources as physical epidemics do, such as viral diseases. There is no system in...
Summit panelists discuss immigration issues impacting Milwaukee in the Trump Era
The 12th Annual Henry W. Maier State of Milwaukee Summit was held on November 15 in the UW-Milwaukee Union Alumni Fireside Lounge, featuring a distinguished panel of community leaders and policy experts who discussed the hot topic issue of...
How anti-immigration policies ingrain fear instead of hope for local refugees
When Janan Najeeb speaks in rural areas about immigration, she is sometimes escorted by police because her hijab and her faith make her a “scary” person. As president of the Milwaukee Muslim Women’s Coalition, she said people need to “wage a war of...
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