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…
By ELIZABETH EATON Arizona Sonora News Service GREEN VALLEY — Row after row of pecan trees stretches into the distance, their dark green reaching up to mix with the blue of the sky, like color blots on a painter’s easel. The smell is undeniably earthy. The trees lean in toward each other, creating a shaded pathway…
By STEPHEN H. CRANE Arizona Sonora News (Stephen H. Crane III is a reporter with El Independiente) The small, crowded hookah lounge was filled with an audience awaiting a young artist’s first performance. But the performer’s flash drive failed. He had no music to back him up. “The crazy thing was that I performed acapella,”…
Por Emily Ellis El Independiente Traducido por Hiriana N. Gallegos Todos los domingos los residentes de Nahuala, Guatemala, caminan silenciosamente mediante la neblina pálida del amanecer a la iglesia blanca que está en medio de su pueblito. Las mujeres van a las bancas de la derecha. Sus cabezas están cubiertas con mantones coloridos tejidos a…
By HAILEY FREEMAN Arizona Sonora News (Hailey Freeman is a reporter with El Independiente) While crew members and volunteers haul speakers, cords and amplifiers off the makeshift stage at Tucson Meet Yourself, guitarist George Landa mingles with the handful of fans waiting in line to buy his band’s CD. Clad in a black newsboy hat and…
