Best of 2019:
My Recommended Reading & Listening
Top book recommendations:
This Land is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto -
Suketu Mehta
The Ungrateful Refugee - Dina Nayeri
The Good Immigrant: 26 Writers Reflect on America - Various Authors
A Mind Spread Out On The Ground- Alicia Elliott
Sadness is a White Bird - Moriel Zecher
The Beekeper - Dunya Mikhail
I Was Their American Dream -
Malaka Gharib
The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates
From Where I Stand
- Jody Wilson-Raybould
Top podcast recommendations:
Favorite articles and multimedia journalism:
A Crime Scene At The Border by Teju Cole (New York Times Magazine)
When The Story Comes Before the Survivor by Jacob Goldberg (Columbia Journalism Review)
Anthropocene Project (Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier)
Faces on the Front Lines of Local Aid (The New Humanitarian)
Do Palestinians Still Support The Two State Solution? by Khalil Shikaki (Foreign Affairs)
Winning Kashmir and Losing India by Pratap Bhanu Mehta (Foreign Affairs)
Iran’s Protest Are Not Just About Gas Prices by Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Saber Khani, and Abolfazl Sotoudeh (Foreign Affairs)
How China’s Propaganda Machine Tried to Control the Message in the Hong Kong Protests by Joyce Y.M. Nip (The Conversation)
How ICE Picks Its Targets in the Surveillance Age by McKenzie Funk (New York Times Magazine)
We Did Not Come Empty Handed: The Economic Case for Immigrants by Suketu Mehta (TIME)