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Shakor Ahmed: Searching for religious fulfillment from Iraq to Chicago

by Lorraine Ma | Jun 15, 2011 | Back Home, Family, Identity, What's New

Shakor Ahmed explains the refuge he has found in a Lutheran church on Chicago’s northwest side Shakor Ahmed sits in the middle-back pew of the Jefferson Park Lutheran Church and reads his hymnbook quietly. The congregation around him sings along with the...

Tobacco repackaged: Paan Parag and hookah and their unappreciated risks

by Lorraine Ma | Jun 4, 2011 | Back Home, Fearing the Law, Identity, What's New

Rizwan Syed seldom enjoys the luxury of a good night’s sleep. Often, his mind is conscious and different thoughts race through his head. He tries to sleep, he gets up, he plays around with the computer, but he knows only one thing will satiate his craving: Paan...

Taking a mirror to our system of neglect

by Lorraine Ma | Apr 23, 2011 | Our Staff, What's New, Work, Jobs and Money

We pound on the wooden door for a third time and push it open cautiously. Irina Maksimovitch sits ten feet away from the door, doing dishes at the kitchen sink. She gives us the condescending and angry look of an aristocrat expecting better service. “Why you...

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