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During the holidays we are grateful for spending time with loved ones, and enjoying foods that are unique to our culture and traditions. Many times that looks like fusion Bangladeshi foods for ‘American’ meals. Our family had a desi spiced turkey, beef biryani, green beans, mashed potatoes, mixed veggies, mac & cheese, vegetable lasagna. Share your desi fusion foods with us at on our socials!
Hamtramck works with community orgs to increase election materials for Bangladeshi voters
Earlier this month the City of Hamtramck added election materials such as signs, posters in Bangla and translators to reach out to Bangladeshi voters.
As of October 2011 Hamtramck has been required to provide the ballots in Bangla for the city’s growing population of Bangladeshis - near 30 percent of the city’s population - due to the Voting Rights Act, which requires that material be provided for non-English proficient speakers who wish to vote in their native language.
Award-winning author Omar El Akkad discusses the refugee crisis in “What Strange Paradise”
Nargis Hakim Rahman interviewed Omar El Akkad, author of “What Strange Paradise,” as part of the National Writers Series. El Akkad’s shares a story about the refugee crisis through the eyes of children. Amir is a 9-year-old Syrian refugee who flees from Egypt and finds Vanna, a Greek girl who helps him.
El Akkad received the Scotiabank Giller Prize for this book. He is also the author of “American War,” a best-selling book that was translated into 13 languages worldwide.