Elle Magazine: Everything I Know About Love I Learned Through Writing About Immigration
We are told that love conquers all. But what happens when you don’t have the right passport?
by Anna Lekas Miller
It is 3 A.M., and I am sitting on the floor of Erbil International Airport, stunned. Just a few days before, I had been waiting for my boyfriend, Salem, to come home from a reporting trip in Iraq. We had been living in Istanbul, Turkey for a little over a year and while neither of us are Turkish, it was the perfect place for us, two journalists, to live while covering stories across the Middle East.