JEANNE CARSTENSEN
Writer | Journalist | Storyteller
RECENT WORK
PRI'S THE WORLD
A SYRIAN FAMILY SEARCHES FOR HOME IN SMALL-TOWN GERMANY
When I met Ali Daas and his family in May of last year in a refugee camp in Greece, they had been without a home since early 2015. After ISIS invaded their hometown of Palmyra, Syria, they escaped to Turkey, then came in a boat to Greece. Since then they’d lived in a series of temporary apartments and several refugee camps...
(Photo by Peter Hessenland/PRI)
STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW
LIFE PRESERVERS AT SEA
Proactiva Open Arms’ greatest threat to its rescue mission may not be the rough Mediterranean seas but European governments fearful of migrants seeking refuge in their countries.
NAUTILUS
THE AMBIGUOUS COLORS OF NANOTECHNOLOGY
Kate Nichols’ nanoparticle paints have changed how she sees color.
(Photo by Earl McCollough/Nautilus)
Every encounter with the Other is an enigma, an unknown quantity — I would even say a mystery.
