by VivienneWalt | May 1, 2016 | Articles, Featured Article, Middle East
By Vivienne Walt ~ TEHRAN The sun is streaming through the windows of a loft-like office where a half-dozen young tech entrepreneurs huddle over their MacBooks in sweatshirts and sneakers. They’re putting the finishing touches to PowerPoint presentations in...
by VivienneWalt | Apr 18, 2016 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS Friday, November 13, 2015 was a strangely balmy night in Paris, the kind that makes visitors fall in love with the city. People spilled out of the cafés, winding down the workweek over glasses of wine, their chatter and laughter creating a...
by VivienneWalt | Jan 28, 2016 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS A cell phone chimed in Brussels’ heavily Muslim district of Molenbeek after midnight on Nov. 14, as much of the world watched the carnage in Paris, where dozens lay dead in Europe’s worst terrorist attack in years. “Come get me,” read the...
by VivienneWalt | Nov 15, 2015 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt ~ PARIS How to explain the inexplicable? “Mama, were kids killed?” The question came two days after the devastating terror attacks in Paris killed 129 people, when I finally sat down to dinner with one Paris resident I had seen almost nothing of since...
by VivienneWalt | Oct 8, 2015 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article, Uncategorized
By Vivienne Walt ~ CATANIA, ITALY As the August heat in Eritrea grew torpid, Mahari, 17, laid plans to flee his homeland. With relatives in the U.S. contributing funds for the journey, he kissed his family goodbye, slipped out of his house and walked four hours to...
by VivienneWalt | Apr 30, 2015 | Articles, Europe, Featured Article
By Vivienne Walt Abu Mohammed was in the living room of the apartment he had rented for himself and his family in the Egyptian city of Agami on April 19 when news broke on the television of a tragedy on the Mediterranean. A boat carrying about 800 migrants from Libya...
