There's something about Mark Kabban's face that says 'I am going to change the world -- you just watch me.' Kabban, 25, was a professional soccer player for college ball and has transferred his passion for the game to children who need it most. "Most of the kids are from...

Washington D.C. -- This week the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) convened the largest conference on refugees and stateless people in its 60-year history. The UNHCR was joined by 145 countries and 60 non-for-profit organizations from around the world in renewing their commitment to the nearly 50 million...

The Tricycle Theater's production, "The Great Game: Afghanistan", can only be called an epic play. During the three-part play audience members are taken on an ambitious journey through the last 150-years of Afghanistan's history. The play is written by 12 distinct playwrights with the goal of immersing audience members into...

Silhouetted by a searing light, actress Kim Schultz transformed. Her fingers curved into shapes suggesting paralysis, her voice turned baritone and raspy. She performed the story of Tafer, a middle-aged Iraqi refugee poet. With arms pleading, head vaguely lifted, she recited, "there is no place for us in Iraq now...

World Refugee Day is the one-day of the year created to draw the world's attention to the most vulnerable and disenfranchised people - refugees. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR) 2009 Global Trend Report, there are approximately 15.2 million people classified as refugees around the world....

Iraq continues to convulse from its transition from despotic dictatorship to democracy. Tomorrow marks Iraq's second election since the US lead invasion in 2003. The incumbent candidate Nouri Al Maliki has been charged with everything from corruption to dictatorship, yet many claim Iraq is more unified today than anytime since...

In 2001 as the impending invasion of Afghanistan beat like a drum through the newly traumatized nation then President George W. Bush declared the liberation of Afghan women as a primary goal of the war. While the current U.S. and Afghanistan governments continue to work to defeat the Taliban insurgency...