Immigrant couple provides halal food — and community — to Syracuse’s Northside Syracuse has become home for Hani and Tatyana Mahmud, who immigrated from Egypt and Russia almost two decades ago. As Muslim immigrants, they realized there was something missing in Central New York: halal food. Hani and Tatyana Mahmud, immigrants from Egypt and Russia, …
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Rita Paniagua came to Syracuse and didn’t think she would stay. Sixteen years later, she has firmly entrenched herself in the city’s civic life by serving its Latino community. Sixteen years after leaving Puerto Rico to join her sister in Syracuse, Rita Paniagua is engaged in more than half a dozen community organizations and firmly …
A divorced mother of four, Jan-Juba Arway is about to earn a master’s degree at Syracuse University. She knows she’s ostracized in her own Sudanese community, and she’s OK with that. A high-risk pregnancy and 38-hour drive pushed Jan-Juba Arway to divorce her abusive husband, despite knowing she’d be ostracized in her community because if …
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Khadijo Abdulkadir decided she wouldn’t let language be a barrier to her success in the United States. Now she’s teaching other immigrants to communicate, adapt and find their own success in Syracuse through her translation business. Listen to Khadijo Abdulkadir describe her journey from speaking no English to solving language barriers for other immigrants in …
Hamdi Farah lived in a Kenyan refugee camp for the first 12 years of her life before settling in Syracuse with her family. At first, she struggled in school but found a passion for teaching refugee children like herself at the North Side Learning Center.
