Helping Muslim refugee children to adapt to a new life while maintaining cultural identity

By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News Eight months ago, Besan Adnan, nine years old, a Syrian refugee from Jordan to the United States encountered a world of different people, a different language, different lifestyles. The school system and teaching methods were also different — until she enrolled at the Al-Rahman Sunday School where she felt her identity…

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From Zeer Pot to Evaptainer, from the Middle East to Arizona, how sunlight and water can address food spoilage when electricity isn’t an option

By NOUR HAKI Arizona Sonora News Service Everybody in southern Arizona knows what an evaporative cooler is. This technology, which pre-dated the wide residential availability of air conditioning, largely enabled a great population influx to the hotter, drier regions of the American Southwest in the 1940s through the 1960s. Now the same evaporation technique —…

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