Who Are the Refugees Barred From Entering the U.S.?

A journey told through Instagram View this email in your browser A round-up of reporting from our grantees, upcoming events, and news from the Pulitzer Center The New Yorker Just Like Us Tomas van Houtryve President Trump, with an executive order last week, closed America's borders to refugees and others from seven mostly Muslim countries. Pulitzer Center grantee Tomas van Houtryve has been following the Instagram trail of some of these refugees as they struggle to find safe haven. Their self-portraits, layered with Tomas's video of tent cities and other stops along the refugee route, are extraordinarily humanizing. Tomas told The New Yorker, which is featuring his work, that during a visit to Reynolds High School, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, he asked students what the word "refugee" brought to mind. The answers were predictable: poor people in miserable circumstances. When he showed them pictures that young refugees had posted of themselves, it drew a different response: "They're just like us."  Tomas's project is one of more than a dozen Pulitzer Center reporting projects that go well beyond the headlines of the global refugee crisis. Read Story Roads & Kingdoms What Divides Europe and Asia? Joshua Kucera From Istanbul, where one can stand with one foot in Europe and the other in Asia, grantee Joshua Kucera begins an exploratory journey that takes him along the border that divides and defines East and West. Read Story Christian Science Monitor Against a Harmful Ritual Amy Yee Some 200 million girls around the world have been subjected to female genital mutilation. Grantee Amy Yee explains how one woman has effectively brought an end to the practice in the region of Ethiopia where she grew up. Read Story EVENTS A New Approach to the Middle East: Albright-Hadley Conversation at Washington University Wednesday, February 8, 2017 'Traces of Exile' at the ICP Museum Now through Saturday, May 27, 2017 MORE FROM PULITZER CENTER In These Times Chiquita Made a Killing from Colombia's Civil War Matt Kennard Delo The Path of Cotton Meta Krese and Jošt Franko Independent Outline South Africa: Residents Down in the Dumps After Coal Slump Mark Olalde Pulitzer Center Grantee Laura Bassett Wins Population Institute's Global Media Award Libby Allen Hardy Middle Schoolers Report D.C., Slowly Lisa Palmer on India's 'Climate-Smart Farming' DONATE The Pulitzer Center promotes in-depth engagement with global affairs through its support for quality international journalism across all media platforms and an innovative program of outreach and education. You are receiving this email because you either opted in at our website or signed up at a Pulitzer Center event. Our mailing address is: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting 1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW Suite 615 Washington, District Of Columbia 20036 Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list