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People around the world look to America as a land of opportunity and safety. Do we have an obligation to asylum seekers requesting protection?
Bought by WXDU, KOWS, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WGCU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more
- Added: Apr 25, 2024
- Length: 52:51
- Purchases: 8
An Iranian refugee comes of age in Oklahoma, and he shares with us how his Christian faith informs his writing in unexpected ways.
- Added: Feb 15, 2024
- Length: 52:50
With thousands of people fleeing their countries and seeking asylum around the world, what can we learn from stories of refugees in America?
- Added: Aug 02, 2023
- Length: 52:50
- Purchases: 9
Army Lieutenant Colonel Larry Candelaria was deployed to Vietnam in 1970. He came to StoryCorps to reflect on his service in the Casualty Branch o...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio
- Added: Jun 22, 2023
- Length: 02:17
- Purchases: 1
Just as his music career was heating up, Decio Rubano discovered he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported to Canada as a young man. He came to St...
- Added: Nov 15, 2022
- Length: 02:15
Skye Fitzgerald talks small gestures, bearing witness, and the element of hope.
- Added: Apr 21, 2021
- Length: 33:29
Mishy Harman talks to Danny Tirza, a jovial retired IDF colonel who, back in 2002, was given an unusual – and logistically nearly impossible – miss...
- Added: Sep 02, 2020
- Length: 08:17
Veronica Tosetti takes us on a journey around the Spomeniks - a trail of statues commemorating former Yugoslavia, and the people who died in conflict.
- Added: Aug 30, 2020
- Length: 06:13
World Pieces host Jason Kladiva interviews Susan Kotsy. Ms. Kotsy grew up in Budapest, Hungary during Nazi and Russian occupation, escaped and came...
- Added: Mar 21, 2020
- Length: 01:10:30
Waad al-Kateab, Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, and Edward Watts talk responsibility, respect, and getting political.
- Added: Jul 31, 2019
- Length: 24:18
During the Third Reich two German songs were written and became world famous: The Peat Bog Soldiers (Moorsoldaten) and Lili Marleen. This show tell...
- Added: Jul 18, 2019
- Length: 58:30
James Edward Brown was a Navy corpsman working as a surgical tech on the ground during the Beirut Bombing of 1983. The bombing killed 241 U.S. serv...
- Added: Jun 11, 2019
- Length: 02:44
Lan Cao lived through some of the fiercest fighting of the Vietnam War before starting her life over in the United States. She tells her daughter w...
- Added: Feb 06, 2018
- Length: 02:39
- Purchases: 2
Life of the Law begins our 4-part series on Uganda. Reported by Gladys Oroma from Gulu, Uganda where she reports for local, national and internatio...
- Added: Jan 09, 2018
- Length: 36:29
A profile of Syrian opthamologist, activist and poet Abdelwahhab Azzawi. He escaped two war zones and made it to freedom in Germany. But there are ...
- Added: Sep 23, 2017
- Length: 13:23
Ahmad Naffory fell in love with the guitar in a Syrian grocery store, but he didn't know that his music would cause him to flee his home for anothe...
- Added: Jul 28, 2017
- Length: 27:05
Evgeny Afineevsky talks reconstructing history, getting to Assad, and why he wants Congress to see his film.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 25:31
You may remember a 2014 StoryCorps about an Iraqi interpreter living in Minnesota with the help of a U.S. soldier. Three years later, the interpret...
Bought by WDBM and WGUC/ WVXU
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 01:42
- Purchases: 2
I worked in a refugee camp in Thessaloniki, Greece this summer and put together an hour long piece meant to humanize the refugee crisis.
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Bought by KVSC, KPIP-LP, and KUAF Public Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2017
- Length: 55:26
- Purchases: 3
Depending on who you talk to, the nuclear agreement reached with Iran in the summer of 2015 is either a landmark step forward, or a total disaster....
- Added: Feb 26, 2016
- Length: 03:32
- Purchases: 2
Somali artist Aziz Osman left home for Florence, Italy, as a young man to pursue his dream of becoming a painter, sculptor and architect. Extensiv...
- Added: Mar 18, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Every summer tourists flock to the beautiful beaches of Eilat, Israel. But in the past thirty years, a new kind of tourist has made its way down so...
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2015
- Length: 12:49
- Purchases: 2
Le Tommy, in the heart of the Somme battlefields, is more than a restaurant. It has a museum of WWI objects and life-sized replicas of trenches out...
- Added: Nov 16, 2014
- Length: 03:55
Paul Braun, a Sergeant with the Minnesota Army National Guard, and his interpreter, Philip, remember... more.
- Added: Oct 22, 2014
- Length: 04:28
- Purchases: 4
Ray has been an activist most of his life. He organized lunch counter sit-ins and participated in the March on Washington. When he was drafted to f...
- Added: Sep 15, 2014
- Length: 23:59
