Her solution involved a component many people look to for comfort when placed in a foreign setting: food. Specifically, Syrian food—an “uncommercialized” cuisine that the Cairo-born Elwan ...

Last October, Good Food spoke with Karen E. Fisher. She's a professor at the University of Washington's Information School and an embedded field researcher with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

The first group of Syrian refugees arrived in Rothesay ... When he arrived in Scotland the food and culture was alien. His English was limited to a few basic phrases and he didn't even know what an ...