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Three women in the Queens of Syria film

BU screens ‘Queens of Syria’ doc highlighting universality of Greek plays, stories of refugees

Ilana Keusch March 9, 2021
The 2014 documentary "Queens of Syria" was screened at a BU virtual event March 2 with a following Q&A session Thursday. The film depicts how dozens of refugee women fleeing Syria banded together to perform a Greek tragedy "The Trojan Women," creating art through their grief.
David Vine, professor of anthropology at American University, explained the post-9/11 refugee crisis at a virtual event with the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Sept. 30. LAURYN ALLEN/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Anthropology researcher examines full scope of post-9/11 conflicts, refugee consequences

Caroline Bowden October 7, 2020
For every viral image of overflowing passengers crossing an ocean or families packed into tents in a refugee camp, there are millions more people, unphotographed, experiencing the same suffering.
Sophie Li (CAS ‘23) fills out paperwork at a voter registration event Friday sponsored by ice cream company Ben & Jerry's at the George Sherman Union. CAROLINE FERNANDEZ/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Ice cream and democracy: Ben & Jerry’s registers voters at BU

Aro Choe November 25, 2019
Ben & Jerry’s served free ice cream and registered people to vote Friday at Boston University’s George Sherman Union.

Boston community gathers to reflect on travel ban

Audrey Tran January 23, 2018

Marking one year since President Donald Trump instilled his travel ban, humanitarian organizations joined forces on Monday to hold a panel at District Hall as a symbol of solidarity with refugees suffering...

EDITORIAL: It shouldn't take a Skittles meme to trigger policy conversations

EDITORIAL: It shouldn’t take a Skittles meme to trigger policy conversations

Editors September 20, 2016

Day in and day out, we have our routines. Our schedule is organized and then completed, to be repeated the next day. We fall into our patterns, and exist in a sort of bubble. It takes certain events to...

A Boston University dorm housing study abroad students in Dresden, Germany is across the street from a refugee camp. PHOTO COURTESY JASMINE NOURAVI

One block from refugee crisis, Dresden students get unique study abroad experience

J.D. Capelouto September 15, 2015

When Boston University student Jasmine Nouravi got an email Wednesday saying that hundreds of Middle Eastern refugees would be setting up camp outside her BU dorm in Dresden, Germany, she didn’t know...

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