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At The Horn, Nashville’s immigrant communities find connection and belonging

Char Daston

December 19, 2023

The Horn Coffee's chalkboard menu, featuring chai, coffee and sambusas.
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If you like chai in Nashville, you can’t do much better than The Horn, a café on Murfreesboro Pike. It’s owned by a Somali family, but it has become a gathering place for South Nashville’s immigrant communities from around the world.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Race & Equity, WPLN News Tagged With: Egypt, Egyptian, El Salvador, iraq, Palestine, Somali community, The Horn

Vanderbilt is helping launch a college to train teachers in Iraq

Alexis Marshall

November 14, 2022

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With the help of a U.S. State Department grant, faculty from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College will partner with American University of Iraq – Baghdad to launch a college of education.

Filed Under: Education, WPLN News Tagged With: Higher Education, international students, iraq, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

Curious Nashville: How the city became a destination for Kurdish families, and how the community is evolving

Alexis Marshall

September 9, 2022

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You may be aware that Nashville is home to the biggest population of Kurdish people in the United States — Kurds, who are considered the largest ethnic group in the world without a sovereign state. But one Curious Nashville listener asked how Nashville came to be such a destination for Kurds. The answer is multi-layered.

Filed Under: Curious Nashville Tagged With: Immigration, Iran, iraq, Kurdistan, Nashville Kurds, refugee resettlement, Syria, Turkey

Nashville’s Large Kurdish Community To Rally For Independence From Iraq

Emily Siner

July 24, 2014

They hope one day for Kurdistan to include parts of all four countries where Kurds currently live. But U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently urged them to remain part of Iraq.

Filed Under: from Nashville to Erbil, WPLN News Tagged With: iraq, Kurdistan, Kurds, Middle East

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