The Atavist Magazine, 2025
Author(s): Seyward Darby, Eman Mohammed and Rhana Natour
At 14, Layan Albaz lost her legs in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza. To learn to walk again, she traveled 6,000 miles from everything she knew. “Coming to America” tells the story of her journey and offers a snapshot of a life forever changed by the destruction in Gaza.
During World War II, Ernie Pyle worked for Scripps-Howard as a journalist embedded with the troops he chronicled. Readers in America saw the war through Ernie’s eyes as he recounted in detail the dangers the soldiers experienced and the fears they felt while serving on the front line.