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Bridge
Hamza learns that immigration does not move one family at the same speed. Between parents carrying memory and siblings growing into America, he becomes the bridge nobody remembers to ask...
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The Color at the End of the Tunnel
Before Libaan learned the bus routes, he learned the shape of waiting. He waited at the government office with a folder under his arm, the kind of folder people buy...
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The Boy Outside the Headline
By Mohamed Eid Ayaanle speaks from the podium as elders, parents, and youth listen across worry and hope. Ayaanle first saw the headline on his mother’s phone. She was standing...
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Rain in Mogadishu, Snow in Minneapolis
By Mohamed Eid The first snow that fell after Sahra moved to Minneapolis did not impress her. Her son, Ilyaas, stood by the apartment window with the kind of excitement...
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The Interpreter’s Chair
By Mohamed Eid The chair was too small for Samatar’s body. It sat between his father’s hospital bed and the doctor’s rolling computer, a gray plastic chair with metal legs...
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The Other Road
When Yassin first set foot on American soil, he believed he was stepping into his future. The air smelled different, crisp with possibilities, and the city’s skyline stretched out before...
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Jidka Iga Tallaabi—Sheeko Gaaban
Tan iyo dhalashadaydii indhaha waxba ka ma arkin, mar kasta oo carruurta qayrkay ah aan eray is dhaafsannana, waxay i xasuusin jireen waxa iga maqan. Yaraantii waxaan ku koray xero...
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Passengers of the Unseen
With just the steady hum of the train to be heard in the darkly lighted compartment, the train rumbled across the countryside. The two people sitting across from one another...
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