admin | October 2, 2021
Sri Lanka and the UK have discussed relations with the Tamil diaspora based in the UK. The focus on the diaspora comes after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had said recently that he is willing to have talks with the Tamil diaspora. Foreign Minister Prof.
admin | October 2, 2021
This summer, Bahar Jalali watched anxiously as the United States withdrew its military from Afghanistan and the Taliban began to reassert control over the country. Women were told to stay home and to cover themselves an early indicator that other rights, protections and services for women would soon be eliminated, including, this week, the right to attend Kabul University
admin | October 2, 2021
Sylvia del Villard dancing Stories like Sylvia del Villard's journey from Puerto Rico's capital of San Juan to the segregated South in the 1950's are not too common. So it fits that during Afro-Latino awareness month from September 15 to October 15 light is shed on Villard's story
admin | October 2, 2021
Dear President Joe Biden and Sens. Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal, I am writing to you as a Tunisian American to call your attention to the fact that a significant segments of the Tunisian diaspora in the United States, are fearful of the political influence garnered by the Tunisian Ennahda Islamist party over your administration.
admin | September 27, 2021
NEW DELHI The importance of the Indian diaspora has come to the fore in India-U.S. relations with both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and U.S. President Joe Biden highlighting this factor as part of the strengthening relationship between the worlds largest and oldest democracies
admin | September 27, 2021
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is in New York for the United Nations General Assembly. His brief stay in the city has three aims
admin | September 27, 2021
In 2020, George Floyds murder by Derek Chauvin, a White police officer in Minneapolis, flared a global nerve. Black Lives Matter protestors stood up against anti-Black racism and police violencebringing to the fore how colonial and imperial systems have not died but morphed into new forms of state surveillance, suppression, and violence against Black and Brown people around the globe
admin | September 27, 2021
Introduction Last fall, the Tibetan community in New York City was scandalized by news that a New York Police Department (NYPD) officer named Baimadajie Angwang, allegedly of Tibetan ethnicity, had been arrested and charged with spying on the local Tibetan community for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) (New York Times, September 21, 2020). Court filings alleged that Angwang had been affiliated with the CCP since at least 2014 (Eastern District of New York U.S. Attorneys Office, September 21, 2020).
admin | September 27, 2021
When the history of Irelands Covid-19 crisis is written, the experience of the diaspora will merit far more attention than it has received during the pandemic itself. Even in normal times, the States rhetorical commitment to its residents living overseas far exceeds its will to tend to their particular needs, but the absence of the Irish abroad from public discourse over the past 18 months has been striking nonetheless
admin | September 27, 2021
Thanks to the generosity of Umang and Paragi Patel, the National Indo-American Museum (NIAM), which builds bridges across generations and connects cultures through the diverse colorful stories of Indian Americans, takes residence at its first brick and mortar home at 815 S. Main Street in Lombard, Illinois. The Umang and Paragi Patel Center opens to the public on Friday September 24, 2021 with an inaugural exhibition, E/Merge: Art of the Indian Diaspora.
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