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Campus Events

Women's rights author and activist encourages BYU to support Afghan students, refugees

By Jessica Spencer
February 05, 2024 12:00 AM
Women’s rights activist and writer Homeira Qaderi spoke at the BYU Kennedy Center on Jan. 31, focusing her remarks on the struggles of Afghan women and inviting the BYU community to support Afghan refugees.
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State

From Afghanistan to Salt Lake City: a refugee's journey

By Cameron Cook
January 09, 2024 12:00 AM
In August 2021, the Saeed family fled their home in Kabul, Afghanistan with nothing but a backpack and hope for freedom. After a perilous escape from Taliban forces and nine long months in Germany, the family relocated again to Salt Lake City, where, at age 22, Naween Saeed has rebuilt her life.
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Campus Events

BYU holds Hazara Career Day, gives education opportunities to youth

By Universe Contributor
November 10, 2022 12:00 AM
ByHassan El-Cheikh
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Campus Events

Former Sen. Jeff Flake assures BYU audience US still plays world leadership role

By Bryndee Helquist
September 29, 2021 12:00 AM
Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake told a BYU audience Wednesday that despite questions raised about the United States' leadership after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the nation still holds a world leadership role.
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Local

Utah preparing for Afghan refugees, students can help

By Melanie Andrews
September 29, 2021 12:00 AM
Y-Serve organizes refugee service projects most Wednesdays from 7-9 p.m. in the Wilkinson Student Center terrace. At one meeting this month, students completed three quilts, one and a half sleeping mats, four pillows, many masks and 15 dolls, according to the Y-Serve Refugee Instagram page.
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Campus

Education Week: BYU religion professor shares stories from inside Afghanistan

August 19, 2021 12:00 AM
By Carly Wasserlein
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Nation

U.S. still needed in Iraq, former State Dept. representative says

By Kelsey Johnson
June 06, 2017 12:00 AM
Men in the Iraqi Army in Habbaniyah, Iraq gather together. Although the Iraq War officially ended in 2011, U.S. troops are still deployed there, according to J. Kael Weston, who spent seven years as a State Department representative with the military in Iraq and Afghanistan. (J. Kael Weston)
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Local

Utah welcomes last refugees permitted before ban enforced

By Kjersten Johnson
February 03, 2017 12:00 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwBELubrjMI&;feature=youtu.be
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Campus

New York Times reporter visits BYU to talk terrorism

By Theresa Davis
October 29, 2015 12:00 AM
Syrian soldiers wave Syrian flags to celebrate the capture of Achan, Hama province, Syria. Schmitt discussed the terror threats in Syria and the global threat of ISIS. (Associated Press)
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Local

News briefs, Oct. 6

By Jenessa Taylor
October 09, 2015 12:00 AM
Oregon campus reopens after shooting
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Movies & Television

War documentarian speaks about filming in the Middle East

By Theresa Davis
October 08, 2015 12:00 AM
Dodge Billingsley addresses students at the Kennedy Center. Billingsley speaks about his experiences filming conflict in the Middle East, and the recent Taliban capture of Kunduz. (Theresa Davis)
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World

A look at the latest developments in Europe's migrant crisis

August 31, 2015 12:00 AM
Migrants cross a border line between Serbia and Hungary, near the village of Horgos, Serbia, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
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Life

Afghanistan's only woman taxi driver steers change

March 25, 2015 12:00 AM
Sara Bahai's decision to become Afghanistan's only known female taxi driver was motivated less by ideals of equality than by the need to support an extended family — and a love of driving that has confined her conservative detractors to the rear-view mirror.
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Nation

Utah professor wants 'drone court' to approve US strikes

January 08, 2015 12:00 AM
An unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan on a moonlit night. Today, when U.S. intelligence agencies believe they know the location of a terrorist in Pakistan and a few other countries, they are largely free to deploy a weapon that's become the symbol of war on terror: an aerial drone. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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Campus

BYU Army ROTC prepares for deployment with mock war exercise

By Jacob Molnar
January 05, 2015 12:00 AM
The BYU Army ROTC trains cadets for war.
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Nation

Former Staff Sergeant Clinton Romesha to receive the Medal of Honor

January 15, 2013 12:00 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama next month will bestow the Medal of Honor on a former active duty Army staff sergeant from North Dakota for 'courageous actions' in Afghanistan in 2009.
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Nation

Candidates for senate discuss issues in televised debate

By Haley Bissegger
October 18, 2012 12:00 AM
Sen. Orrin Hatch and his opponent Scott Howell discussed political gridlock in Washington and the economy during Wednesday night's televised senatorial debate.
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Campus

Ben Fischer took a different route: soldier, missionary then student

October 08, 2012 12:00 AM
Living in wooden huts with tin roofs in 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Afghanistan was something Manti native Ben Fischer will never forget. Through life's unexpected turns Fischer did not take the normal route most would expect to take from high school to college.
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