Born in the Mekong Delta in 1932 to a wealthy land-owning family, Thi Quang Lam spent 25 years in the army and rose to the rank of lieutenant general ...
There are many orthodoxies -- religious, political, philosophical and more. Like all other tyrannies, they seek conformity. Orthodoxy is to the mind as tyranny is to the person.
Last October, thousands of Tibetan exiles were able to "return home" -- at least temporarily -- when Tenzing Rigdol smuggled 20,000 kilograms of native Tibetan soil into India.
As news that Marco Rubio may be a serious contender for Mitt Romney's GOP running mate emerged Tuesday, so too did a pair of books detailing Rubio’s...
Labor union leader Napoleón Gómez Urrutia recently received a human rights award from the AFL-CIO at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to accept the award himself.
I was eight months pregnant when I met two Basque radicals living in Cuba, Rosa and Carlos, or at least that's what they called themselves then. They ...
Three years ago, the Associated Press had written Britney Spears' obituary. Just in case. Spears was 26 and seemingly mid-freefall in an epic tumb...
"Exiles" and their politics are part of the very fabric of American life. But there are many times when "exile" politics have proved to be a problem -- with the recent Iraq debacle, a case in point, and fragmented Lebanon being another.
The money came in a white envelope, brought to the door by an illegal agency. "Use it to celebrate Christmas," the accompanying note read, ending with a brief, "bye."
"Exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience," the late Palestinian scholar Edward Said once wrote. "It is the unhealable ...
One of the nice things about blogging on Huff Post is not only can you expound on your chosen subject in more than a soundbite, but you may find yours...
(AP) DHARMSALA, India — The Dalai Lama celebrated his 75th birthday Tuesday with hundreds of cheering followers in this northern Indian town whe...
In two recent novels, both written in English, two novelists from Lebanon now living in North America offer further dramatization of exile: they allow...
Bangladesh writer Taslima Nasreen, forced to flee her homeland by Muslim extremists, said Wednesday that India had told her it will no longer renew he...
While Africa and America are often recognized as the book ends of the African Diaspora, there is an additional link in the Middle Passage that is less publicized, but no less important.
There are a number of Americans who left the country at some point for various reasons -- and who now can't return because they or their dependents are effectively uninsurable.
I asked Wuer Kaixi, one of the most prominent student leaders of the uprising, where he planned to be on anniversary of the Tianamen massacre. The second most wanted man in China hesitated.
From their merging of religious tradition with daily life to their personal and historical narratives, the similarities between Muslims and Jews living in Israel is almost tragically comical.
