Category - Perspective

Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022 • Reporter's Notebook • Top • Travel

Watch out for Türkiye’s evil eye

November 26, 2022

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by Norah Springborn, Sreehitha Gandluri

ISTANBUL – From the moment our flights touched down in Istanbul, the blue evil eye was everywhere...

Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022 • Perspective • Reporter's Notebook • Travel

Steaming hot, harsh scrubbing and a splash of cold – our...

November 25, 2022

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by Tanya Tkachenko, Regina López, Erin Timur

ISTANBUL – One of the many gifts the Roman and the Byzantine Empires left us were hammams. The...

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Making friends, gaining confidence

November 25, 2022

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by Naz Mergen, Lina Köksal

ISTANBUL – I‘ve always been a person who was afraid to meet people. I always thought they wouldn’t...

Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022 • Perspective • Top • Travel

Finding so much in common and why I’ll never eat Iranian...

November 25, 2022

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by Parnian Shahsavary, Norah Springborn, Regina López

ISTANBUL – My Turkish friend İpek Eser and I were getting simit, a bread in the shape of a circle...

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Visiting religious sites as a non-believer

November 25, 2022

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by Holly Hostettler-Davies

ISTANBUL – I grew up in a non-religious family and consider myself a non-believer, yet visiting...

Art • Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022 • Perspective • Top • Travel

YJI’s conference in Istanbul taught me to dare

November 23, 2022

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by Nargis Babar, Lina Köksal, Parnian Shahsavary

ISTANBUL – When my editor at Youth Journalism International first approached me about taking part...

Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022 • Reporter's Notebook • Top • Travel

The breathtaking beauty of Topkapi Palace

November 23, 2022

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by Ana Fadul, Regina López, Naz Mergen, Nargis Babar, Lina Köksal

ISTANBUL – Standing outside in the burning Turkish heat and ignorant of where we were going, sweat...

Art • Global Conference in Istanbul, 2022 • Illustrations • Perspective • Travel

My new foreign friends found my everyday life strangely...

November 23, 2022

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by İpek Eser

ISTANBUL – I live in Istanbul. I have done so my whole life. I haven’t been living under a rock...

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Youth Journalism International

3 days ago

We're thankful today and every day for our amazing students and our incredible supporters. Happy Thanksgiving! May your hearts be full. Illustration by the talented Christine Marinho, a Senior Illustrator with YJI from Houston, Texas. <3 ... See MoreSee Less

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Youth Journalism International

4 days ago

If you are at least 21 and love rare, delicious bourbon, this auction to benefit YJI is for you! It's a full "Weller Flight" from the generous folks at Buffalo Trace Distillery. Bidding is open now through mid-day Sunday. Tell your fellow bourbon lovers, please and hurry! ... See MoreSee Less

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Youth Journalism International

5 days ago

We are beyond proud of a wonderful YJI alum, Arooj Khalid, who is working to advance education for girls. She's featured in a new book by the Malala Fund, which is cool, and she's on the cutting edge of a much-needed worldwide effort to seek equal education for both sexes, which is even more cool.Anyway, read about her in a new story by YJI's Holly Hostettler-Davies. Here's an excerpt and link:Arooj Khalid realized that although both of her parents wanted her and her brothers to go to good schools and be good students, the expectations that they had for their daughter were different from those they had for their sons.Khalid said she was expected to have a good education and then find a good husband, whereas her brothers were expected to use their good education to secure them successful careers.This was when she first started to realize the differences in gender norms, especially when it comes to education. After visiting schools in the United States, Khalid saw how teachers teach and how the curriculums in other countries worked, making her feel a “deep sense of deprivation.”She realized that the good education she got in Pakistan was not even a good education compared to the education in other countries. “Even though I went to really good schools, I felt like something really huge had been taken away from me,” she said.Since her education, Khalid has been working to create a more gender-equal society – and a better education system for girls particularly, in Pakistan. “I wanted to do something for the students as I felt something had been taken away from me and I felt I still had a better chance of gaining it, somehow,” she said, sharing her motivations behind her work for girls education. youthjournalism.org/her-passion-for-girls-education-earned-her-a-spot-in-malalas-new-book/ ... See MoreSee Less

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Youth Journalism International

6 days ago

Congratulations to YJI alum Janani Ramachandran, newly elected to the city council in Oakland, California! ... See MoreSee Less

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