by Andrea Tseng | Mar 14, 2023 | Immigrant Stories
My name is Awras Haddad. I am Iraqi, and I am an immigrant several times over. I was born in Hungary, schooled in Libya, and educated at a university in Iraq. I prepared to be a dentist in Iraq and the US. I finally settled in Texas. The immigrant I want tell about,...
by Andrea Tseng | Mar 1, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
In 1979 Mylinh Luong left communist Vietnam with her father, mother, and four siblings in a crowded fishing boat. She was six years old. She vividly recalls the deprivation, squalor, and brutality of the journey and life in a Malaysian refugee camp. She knows what it...
by Andrea Tseng | Feb 1, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
Ana Arellanos was born in Mexico and came to Texas, undocumented, when she was five. She grew up in Gail, a small town in West Texas. Now, at age 34, she is a U.S. citizen and an immigration attorney. She knows the system from both sides. She wishes the whole country...
by Andrea Tseng | Jan 6, 2023 | When I Got Here Podcast
Ow-z (Aws) Al-Darkazali, known as “Big Al,” is an Iraqi dentist. At first euphoric over the ouster of Saddam Hussein, he grew so discouraged with the outcome that he gave up everything and left home to rebuild his life. After false starts in Cyprus and England he...
by Andrea Tseng | Dec 1, 2022 | When I Got Here Podcast
Alexandra Bacalao is an immigrant from Venezuela by way of Canada who came to the US as a schoolgirl. Now a physician and scientist, the podcast is the story of how she sees America through a complex matrix formed from the other countries where she’s lived, her...
