Welcome to PORT OF ENTRY

Bringing attention to stories the world has lost interest in.

Welcome to the first edition of Port of Entry, a weekly newsletter that brings attention to global news stories long after the world loses interest in them.

Out of the news cycle, out of mind.

As a child of Bangladeshi immigrants, I grew up tethered to two worlds as so many first-generation kids do. My curiosity about my homeland and how people outside of the United States live led me to journalism.

In 2018, I moved to Bangladesh to report on the world’s largest refugee crisis at the time: the Rohingya—a muslim minority in neighboring Myanmar that have been systemetically persecuted for decades by the Myanmar government for being a minority in a Buddhist-majority country. Over 700,000 Rohingya fled across the border to Bangladesh to seek refuge among the hundreds and thousands of refugees that had already been living there during earlier exoduses.

Aid started flowing in, trees were cut do…