As Told To

Before he became the best-selling author author of “The Kite Runner,” Khaled Hosseini was an asylum seeker.

They came to destroy. ISIS forces flooded the Sinjar region of Iraq at dawn determined to wipe out Yazidism, an ancient faith with a rich oral tradition.

At least 8,372 Muslim Bosniaks were killed in the 1995 Srebrenica genocide when Bosnian Serb soldiers swept into a U.N.-designated “safe haven.” Šehović remembers the fear and horror that her family experienced at the time, emotions that she has channeled into her public monument to the genocide: ŠTO TE NEMA or “Why are you not here?”

Photographer Omar Imam speaks about what it means to be a Syrian refugee six years into a conflict that has scattered Syrians across the world.

In April, President Donald Trump pledged not to deport undocumented immigrants with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status — aka “Dreamers” — telling the more than 875,000 people brought to the U.S. illegally as children that they should “rest easy.”

After living in the United States for 25 years, Aram Han Sifuentes applied to be a citizen this week.

On March 27, Wilmer Catalan-Ramirez was dragged from his home by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents posing as police officers.

Maudlyne Ihejirika is an award-winning reporter and editor who has spent over 25 years at the Chicago Sun-Times.

More than 17,000 Syrians have been killed in government custody since March 2011, and an estimated 100,000 people are still missing and presumed detained or killed, according to Syrian human rights groups.

An ethnic Ukrainian, he began his life in a refugee camp in Munich, Germany in 1949.

Susan Adeeb came to the United States as a refugee from Iraq. During the Iraq War, she served as an interpreter for the U.S. Provincial Authority.

It’s been three months since Khaled Almilaji has seen his pregnant wife.

Diana Cruz was born and raised in Chicago and converted to Islam 17 years ago.

Tango dancer, log cabin builder, Syrian immigrant: Jafra Saif is anything but typical.

Seventeen-year-old Malak Afaneh was learning about Rosie the Riveter in a class at her high school in Chicago when an idea struck her: What if Rosie was Muslim?

Hadia Zarzour is a licensed clinical professional counselor and co-founder of the Syrian Community Network, a nonprofit determined to aid and assist resettled Syrian refugees as they build new lives in the United States.

Jamie Friedland answered a call for legal help at O’Hare International Airport January 28, the day after the immigration ban began.