For Faisal Faisal, the 2006 Turin Olympics were both unforgettable and unbearable. Pinned inside his family's Baghdad home while the opening ceremony from Turin was happening, Faisal couldn't venture ...

Faisal Faisal's Olympic dream appears to be just that -- a goal far out of reach, almost entirely unrealistic. In 2006, he wants to become the first Iraqi athlete to compete in the Winter Olympics, ...

At home in Baghdad, Faisal Faisal looks at photos of his dead friend and remembers how spirited he was. He recalls the young Maad throwing a rock at an empty school bus then running away with the ...

His country was invaded, his friends and family are at war, and the streets he once strolled are in shambles. Frustrated and angry, Faisal Faisal wanted to do something to help his people of Iraq. He ...

says Australian officials declined to help. He got some help from Poland, and then – in Faisal’s biggest coup to date – from the USA, through the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). The USOC ...

Dozens of protesters rallied in Harvard Square Sunday to renew calls for increased transparency from Cambridge officials on the January police killing of 20-year-old Sayed Faisal by a Cambridge Police ...