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What’s next for all the refugees on Manus Island? | Foreign Correspondent
About Foreign Correspondent: Foreign Correspondent is the prime-time international public affairs program on Australia’s national broadcaster, ABC-TV. We produce half-hour

Buffalo State University | 153rd Commencement Ceremony | School of the Professions
Join us for a momentous celebration as we honor the achievements of our graduates in this year’s commencement ceremony. Tune

“Writing Saved Me”: A Journalist’s Experience as a Stateless Refugee
November 6, 2023 | Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque, a journalist and human rights activist, has written extensively about his experiences

Writing Through Fences
Imran Mohammed is now a writer having taught himself to write English. Imran Mohammed is now a writer having taught

Four birthdays in Manus Prison
Life is made intentionally cruel for refugees trapped on Manus Island Imran Mohammad is a member of the Rohingya ethnic

Imran MohammadResettled refugees in Covid-19 lockdown
In 2018, my life changed forever. From being stateless, after seven years held in refugee detention, I became a permanent

Meet the Buffalo State recipients of the 2025 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence
Buffalo State University proudly recognizes three exemplary students who have been awarded the 2025 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence, the highest

Writing Saved Me
My full name is Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque, although I normally shorten it to just ‘Imran’. I was born to

Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque REPORTING FELLOW
Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque is a stateless Rohingya refugee from Myanmar. He is in his third year, majoring in social

Imran Mohammad | Truman College Student | Student Trustee for City Colleges of Chicago
Imran Mohammad, a student at Truman College and the recently-elected Student Trustee for City Colleges of Chicago, looks forward to

My life as a Rohingya: An unrecognised existence in this world
The world has just begun to recognise the Rohingya people. Despite being born in Myanmar (formerly Burma), we are known

Meditations from Manus
This article comes to us from inside the walls of Manus Regional Processing Centre. Imran Mohammad is a member of

The plight of Rohingya women
I write this as a Rohingya man, a refugee, looking at an unacknowledged reality in the upheaval of my people.

I left Manus Island but it’s hard to feel free while my refugee brothers and sisters are still detained Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque
Those of us who have resettled in the US and other countries all left someone very close to us behind

‘Australia’s loss is America’s gain’: the Nauru and Manus refugees starting anew in the US Anne Richard
I signed the deal to resettle some of Australia’s refugees from Nauru and Manus Island in the US. I wanted

A young man grappled with survivor’s guilt for being resettled in the US from Manus Island
A former Manus Island refugee has gone from “torture” at the hands of Aussie authorities to a life that seemed

‘I’m happy, but I am also broken for those left behind’: life after Manus and Nauru Elaine Pearson
Resettlement in the US has allowed some long-persecuted people to flourish, but that doesn’t let Australia off the hook ‘In

A Rohingya Truck Driver: A Long Road Ahead
Mohammad Faisal, a 27-year-old Rohingya from Sobaran, Rakhine State, Myanmar (known as Burma until 1989), now lives in Chicago, where

Emotionally Complex Lives of Rohingya Girls in the U.S.
An awkward smile shines through the tiny box on the computer screen as Azimah Jalil introduces herself on our Zoom

BBC World Service – The Documentary Podcast, Detours 4: Imran is stateless
Imran fled violence in Myanmar – now he is in detention on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, with no

Pain, refuge and freedom: Imran’s story
As someone born to stateless parents, and who has been stateless all my life, I found it impossible to imagine

Reporting Fellow Alum Wins Mark of Excellence Award
Pulitzer Center Reporting Fellow Imran Mohammad Fazal Hoque won the national Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists in the in-depth

Imran MohammadManus Island and post-traumatic stress
No matter how hard or how long I take to try to comprehend it, the pieces of the ghastly jigsaw

Op-Ed: I was born stateless and persecuted in Myanmar. Here is what it took for me to come to the U.S.
Rohingya migrants bring back food supplies dropped by a Thai army helicopter after jumping into the sea to collect them.

We Lost All, But Found Each Other
Nur Jan and Noor Jahan opened the door of their apartment with a heartwarming smile. They called me “son” and

Life Is Safe, But Lonely
Nur Amin Rahman, a 44-year-old Rohingya from Sittwe, Rakhine State, Myanmar, now lives on the north side of Chicago, in an

We Are Rohingya Americans: Establishing a Relationship With U.S. Officials To Advocate for Justice and Peace Is Crucial
The Rohingya American Council (RAC) is a newly formed organization with representatives from states around the U.S. Our main purpose