By Sophia Cardona With two kids under the age of nine, going back to Haiti wasn’t a risk he was willing to take. Kidnappings and mass killings are daily events back home. Last year, the United Nations reported that between April 2025 and June 2025,…
For Marian Asfoura, who emigrated from Syria to the U.S. in 2006, the country that she left behind is not the one she recognizes on nightly news reports.
By Cal Colgan | JColgan@flagler.edu
Illustration by Hahau Yisrael
Last month, Barack Obama became the third U.S. president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee lauded Obama for his “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
But unlike the countless followers of the lunatic Glenn Beck who think our 44th president is turning our country into Stalinist Russia, there is a more rational argument to be made against Obama’s recent award.