What Happened When My Travel Ban-Supporting Neighbor Met With Refugees

Ari Honarvar
The Establishment
Published in
7 min readApr 10, 2017

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A story of bigotry, hate, and hope.

II ’ve always liked my neighbor. Ever since I moved to the neighborhood five years ago, we’ve had the ideal neighborly relationship. He’s given me rides to the airport. I’ve brought him soup when he was sick. We’ve exchanged homemade Christmas cookies around the holidays. Even so, we…

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Ari Honarvar
The Establishment

Speaker, performer, refugee advocate| @guardian @washingtonpost and more| The author of Rumi’s Gift and upcoming novel, A Girl Called Rumi rumiwithaview.com