This is one of the best refugee experience/immigration picture books I’ve read. T he boy walks away from his homeland with very few things carried on his back. Precise, sensory text perfectly narrates ...
Over 100 million people have been displaced by conflict and disaster globally, but behind the big numbers and headlines there are fascinating personal stories of displacement, loss and new beginnings.
Benjamin Zephaniah's novel Refugee Boy tells the story of a half-Ethiopian, half-Eritrean teenager seeking safety in the UK. It has now been adapted for the stage by fellow poet Lemn Sissay, whose own ...
Onjali Q. Raúf’s The Boy at the Back of the Class has become a widely read novel since its publication in 2018. The book, and recently adapted play, tells the story of refugee boy Ahmet arriving at a ...
On Wednesday night, Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies in Race & Ethnicity (CCSRE) presented the 18th Annual Anne and Loren Kieve Distinguished Lecture, “Speaking for an Other,” delivered by ...