World Refugee Day is Saturday, June 22, and Welcome Neighbor STL is celebrating with a World Refugee Day drive-thru lunch featuring Syrian chef and refugee Mawda Altayan.
When Ayman Almalla and Ghaida Al Masrabi immigrated to St. Louis in 2016, they were thrust into an unfamiliar world without any of the comforts of home.
In the dark, intimate, black and gold dining room at The W Karaoke Lounge in University City, Missouri, I saw my entire childhood in Palestine spread out across a table.