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Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery

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Refugees from Syria and Iraq help visitors at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology make connections between history and the present day.

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Now Playing: Bell & Glass

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Two of Philadelphia’s main attractions are the Liberty Bell and the Large Glass by 20th century artist Marcel Duchamp, in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Today, contemporary artist Christian Marclay has woven them together in an installation using music, video and gift-shop knick-knacks. He insists that the similarities between the Liberty Bell […]

Iron Monsters

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There’s a tradition of crafting monsters that was refined in the 19th century, but it began many centuries earlier. Studio 360’s Peter Clowney went to meet some iron gargoyles and their makers at a new show at the Rosenbach Museum and library in Philadelphia.

Don’t Forget Us: Photographing the Oil Spill

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The biggest piece of bad news of the last 4 months seems to be getting less bad: the Deepwater Horizon oil well is plugged, and the spill is disappearing from the surface of the Gulf fast.As the catastrophefades the photographerZoe Straussis doing her part to keep our focus on the disaster — and how it […]

Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's travel ban outside Philadelphia International Airport.

This Trump voter is stunned to find her Syrian relatives deported

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Sarmad Assali, an Orthodox Christian in Allentown, Pennsylvania, supported Donald Trump for president. She was stunned this weekend when his refugee and immigration restrictions meant her relatives were deported back to Damascus.

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In sanctuary cities, immigrants find themselves with few real protections from federal officials

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For immigrants with a criminal record, sanctuary cities don’t provide protection from deportation. They can, though, delay the process.

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