Stephanie Saldaña
@stephsaldana.bsky.social
Writer, reader, impatient chronicler of that which vanishes and remains. I write about migration, religious diversity, cultural heritage, and beauty in terrible times. Middle East, France, Texas. Latest book: WHAT WE REMEMBER WILL BE SAVED.
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A must read for anyone concerned about #immigration and #migrants. Serve the poor and the stranger, even when it means persecution.
April 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
A must read for anyone concerned about #immigration and #migrants. Serve the poor and the stranger, even when it means persecution.
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@stephsaldana.bsky.social thanks for posting about your book recently. I just received my copy of 'What We Remember Will Be Saved' yesterday. What a wonderful book!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
What We Remember Will Be Saved: A Story of Refugees and…
Eggplant seeds, a lullaby in a vanishing language, an e…
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February 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
@stephsaldana.bsky.social thanks for posting about your book recently. I just received my copy of 'What We Remember Will Be Saved' yesterday. What a wonderful book!
www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
www.goodreads.com/book/show/71...
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During the reign of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, captives from fallen cities were often resettled.
This relief has always moved me in particular because of the youngest deportees.
In the top register, women walk while breastfeeding babies, and a toddler sits on someone’s shoulders.
This relief has always moved me in particular because of the youngest deportees.
In the top register, women walk while breastfeeding babies, and a toddler sits on someone’s shoulders.
January 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
During the reign of the ancient Assyrian king Ashurbanipal, captives from fallen cities were often resettled.
This relief has always moved me in particular because of the youngest deportees.
In the top register, women walk while breastfeeding babies, and a toddler sits on someone’s shoulders.
This relief has always moved me in particular because of the youngest deportees.
In the top register, women walk while breastfeeding babies, and a toddler sits on someone’s shoulders.
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With a flurry of executive orders signed by President Trump, regular migration pathways in the US have effectively been closed.
"If these orders stand, the world will certainly become a more dangerous, less humane place for everybody," writes @billfrelick.bsky.social.
"If these orders stand, the world will certainly become a more dangerous, less humane place for everybody," writes @billfrelick.bsky.social.
US Closing the Door to Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants
The essential step toward a world in which people fleeing war, persecution, and poverty no longer need to risk their lives on overcrowded rickety boats, impale themselves on razor wire border fences, ...
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January 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
With a flurry of executive orders signed by President Trump, regular migration pathways in the US have effectively been closed.
"If these orders stand, the world will certainly become a more dangerous, less humane place for everybody," writes @billfrelick.bsky.social.
"If these orders stand, the world will certainly become a more dangerous, less humane place for everybody," writes @billfrelick.bsky.social.
President Trump has suspended the US Refugee Resettlement Program. Please read the stories in this book, teach them in your schools and share them in your communities of faith and friendship. The measure of how we treat those in need is a measure of our ability to hold on to our humanity.
January 21, 2025 at 12:53 PM
President Trump has suspended the US Refugee Resettlement Program. Please read the stories in this book, teach them in your schools and share them in your communities of faith and friendship. The measure of how we treat those in need is a measure of our ability to hold on to our humanity.
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It is entirely within our power to make 2025 a year where not one single person drowns attempting to cross the channel.
It is up to us to demand it, in these people’s names.
It is up to us to demand it, in these people’s names.
“It’s absolutely horrifying seeing so many names and faces who have lost their lives needlessly. Every one of these deaths could have been prevented."
Heartbreaking, harrowing, and something to reflect on going into 2025
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Heartbreaking, harrowing, and something to reflect on going into 2025
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Names and faces of people who died in Channel during deadliest year on record
Heartbreaking photos show men, women and children who died this year trying to reach the UK in small boats as MPs are urged to reflect on the tragedies and stop it happening again
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January 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
It is entirely within our power to make 2025 a year where not one single person drowns attempting to cross the channel.
It is up to us to demand it, in these people’s names.
It is up to us to demand it, in these people’s names.
I wrote about how often we failed the Syrian people, and what we must confront if we hope to do better.
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
The tragedy of Syria—and what we all could have done differently
Why did we fail, so often, to help?
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December 28, 2024 at 1:17 PM
I wrote about how often we failed the Syrian people, and what we must confront if we hope to do better.
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
www.americamagazine.org/faith/2024/1...
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#Italy: Doctors Without Borders forced to end operation of #GeoBarents search & rescue ship due to Italian laws & policies.
They made it impossible to continue with the current operational model, they disregard the lives of people crossing the #Mediterranean.
Our ship saved over 12,600 lives.
They made it impossible to continue with the current operational model, they disregard the lives of people crossing the #Mediterranean.
Our ship saved over 12,600 lives.
December 13, 2024 at 2:21 PM
#Italy: Doctors Without Borders forced to end operation of #GeoBarents search & rescue ship due to Italian laws & policies.
They made it impossible to continue with the current operational model, they disregard the lives of people crossing the #Mediterranean.
Our ship saved over 12,600 lives.
They made it impossible to continue with the current operational model, they disregard the lives of people crossing the #Mediterranean.
Our ship saved over 12,600 lives.
More of beautiful Damascus.
December 9, 2024 at 12:12 PM
More of beautiful Damascus.
"Now there is no more forever."
“I am thinking of the tears of the Syrian people, of their suffering, their pain and their sorrow. I am crying and thinking of my city, ruined and broken, besieged and starved…I am thinking of the people who remained in Homs, while we lived in exile.”
-Ammar Azzouz, scholar and architect from Homs
-Ammar Azzouz, scholar and architect from Homs
Now Syria can dream of a future again
The walls of fear have been destroyed — there is a new landscape of hope that has been hard to even dare to imagine
www.ft.com
December 9, 2024 at 4:36 AM
"Now there is no more forever."
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I assume lots of reporters will be in Syria soon. There will be lots of interest in stories about people released from Assad's torture houses. Hacks: Please consider the extreme trauma such people have gone through. Talk to trauma specialists before you go. Don't add to trauma to fill your quota.
December 9, 2024 at 12:59 AM
I assume lots of reporters will be in Syria soon. There will be lots of interest in stories about people released from Assad's torture houses. Hacks: Please consider the extreme trauma such people have gone through. Talk to trauma specialists before you go. Don't add to trauma to fill your quota.
That light. Nowhere else in the world has that light.
December 8, 2024 at 6:22 PM
That light. Nowhere else in the world has that light.
So many memories flooding back. Deir Mar Musa, near Nebek, Syria.
December 8, 2024 at 4:35 PM
So many memories flooding back. Deir Mar Musa, near Nebek, Syria.
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A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
December 8, 2024 at 2:51 AM
A photo I posted of graffiti in Syria in 2014.
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
"One day the war will be over and I will return to my poem"
I hope they will return to their poem
Beautiful Damascus, 2004.
December 8, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Beautiful Damascus, 2004.
Syria. The Country where I learned Arabic. Fell in love. Made some of my closest friends. So many lives lost- to war, to the sea, to prison. And now, a fragile hope... Here's a photo from the desert in Deir Mar Musa, near Nebek.
December 8, 2024 at 8:48 AM
Syria. The Country where I learned Arabic. Fell in love. Made some of my closest friends. So many lives lost- to war, to the sea, to prison. And now, a fragile hope... Here's a photo from the desert in Deir Mar Musa, near Nebek.
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For #FrescoFriday a saint from the chapel at the monastery of Deir Mar Musa, Syria. Here the underlying painting from the first phase of the frescoes, dated to after 1058 and before 1088, with fragments of the more colourful later phase over it.
#Syria #SyriaSky #MedievalSky
#Syria #SyriaSky #MedievalSky
December 7, 2024 at 2:46 AM
For #FrescoFriday a saint from the chapel at the monastery of Deir Mar Musa, Syria. Here the underlying painting from the first phase of the frescoes, dated to after 1058 and before 1088, with fragments of the more colourful later phase over it.
#Syria #SyriaSky #MedievalSky
#Syria #SyriaSky #MedievalSky
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45 people, including unaccompanied children, were rescued last night by @msfsea.bsky.social team from an overcrowded boat in distress in international waters.
The boat was taking on significant amounts of water due to bad weather conditions, making it unstable and at high risk of capsizing.
The boat was taking on significant amounts of water due to bad weather conditions, making it unstable and at high risk of capsizing.
December 4, 2024 at 8:34 AM
45 people, including unaccompanied children, were rescued last night by @msfsea.bsky.social team from an overcrowded boat in distress in international waters.
The boat was taking on significant amounts of water due to bad weather conditions, making it unstable and at high risk of capsizing.
The boat was taking on significant amounts of water due to bad weather conditions, making it unstable and at high risk of capsizing.
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In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
November 16, 2024 at 1:12 AM
In case any of my fellow creatives also needed this reminder:
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Australia passes harsh new anti-migration laws. Rather than reinforcing a system that criminalizes & punishes refugees & asylum seekers, Australia should take a rights-respecting approach, end offshore detention & invest in detention alternatives. @hrw @AnnabelHennessy www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
Australia Passes Harsh New Anti-Migration Laws
On Thursday night, the Australian government passed new laws that expand the country’s offshore detention regime, further evade international obligations, and allow officials to pursue prison terms fo...
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November 29, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Australia passes harsh new anti-migration laws. Rather than reinforcing a system that criminalizes & punishes refugees & asylum seekers, Australia should take a rights-respecting approach, end offshore detention & invest in detention alternatives. @hrw @AnnabelHennessy www.hrw.org/news/2024/11...
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‼️MSF team witnessed another tragedy this morning while arriving to rescue people in distress on a deflating rubber boat, with armed men on a fast boat in their close vicinity. Survivors reported that 29 women and children had been intercepted at gunpoint before our arrival.
November 28, 2024 at 4:55 PM
‼️MSF team witnessed another tragedy this morning while arriving to rescue people in distress on a deflating rubber boat, with armed men on a fast boat in their close vicinity. Survivors reported that 29 women and children had been intercepted at gunpoint before our arrival.
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Have you taken a great workshop/course on research skills for nonfiction writers? (Esp for book-length projects.) If so, I'd love to hear about it.
November 26, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Have you taken a great workshop/course on research skills for nonfiction writers? (Esp for book-length projects.) If so, I'd love to hear about it.
Whenever I feel down, I find it helpful to look at Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka's glass flowers, now located at the Harvard Natural History Museum. "Beauty will save the world," and all of that-- they never disappoint.
November 26, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Whenever I feel down, I find it helpful to look at Rudolf and Leopold Blaschka's glass flowers, now located at the Harvard Natural History Museum. "Beauty will save the world," and all of that-- they never disappoint.