Rose Gilbert

Nashville

General Assignment Reporter at WPLN-FM (Nashville, TN)

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Introducing 'The Country In Our Hearts' podcast series

1 week ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Nashville Public Radio presents a new, four-part series: The Country In Our Hearts — out June 5. In 1988, hundreds of thousands of Kurds fled northern Iraq as Saddam Hussein’s armies hunted them down. Many ended up in Nashville, making this southern city home to the largest Kurdish community in America. Their stories are epic. Stories of bloody genocide, freedom fighters, faraway mountains and the American Dream.
'You can get people killed,' and other advice.

3 weeks ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

This travelogue is just one part of my dispatches from Erbil. You can read them all on the project’s landing page here. Friday — Sept. 13, 2024I had enjoyed my trip to the Qaysari Bazaar immensely, but I wanted to go back with someone who knew their way around. So when Suha Kamel, the journalist I’d met just a few nights ago, invited me to join her and a friend on an evening trip to the bazaar, I leapt at the chance. When we arrived, the sun had just set and the day had finally begun to cool off.
An extremely grand bazaar

1 month ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

This travelogue is just one part of my dispatches from Erbil. You can read them all on the project’s landing page here. Thursday — Sept. 12, 2024The Qaysari Bazaar is an absolute marvel. Nestled in the heart of old Erbil, this sprawling covered market sits in the shadow of the city’s ancient citadel, which is perhaps the oldest continuously inhabited place on earth. My first visit was wonderful and wonderfully overwhelming. People have been buying and selling here for more than eight hundred years.
The generous journalists of Erbil

1 month ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

This travelogue is just one part of my dispatches from Erbil. You can read them all on the project’s landing page here. Wednesday and Thursday — Sept. 11 and 12, 2024My first few days in Erbil were spent exploring my neighborhood, making calls and sorting out the logistics of living in a new place. I secured myself an Iraqi phone number, and I successfully converted my stash of U.S. dollars into dinars.
Liquor stores and LED crosses

1 month ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

This travelogue is just one part of my dispatches from Erbil. You can read them all on the project’s landing page here. Sunday through Tuesday — Sept. 8-10, 2024Breakfast at the Classy Hotel Ankawa is an excellent place for people watching. It quickly became part of my morning routine. I would wake up, get dressed and then go down to the breakfast buffet to eat my fill of fruit, bread, eggs and cheese.
Welcome to the Classy Hotel Ankawa

1 month ago | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Nearly two years ago, I came to the leadership at WPLN with a somewhat outrageous idea: to send me, a local general assignment reporter, on a five-week-long reporting trip to Erbil, the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan. Erbil (often called Hawler by Kurdish people) is also Nashville’s newest sister city, a distinction born of our vibrant Kurdish community, which is the largest in the United States.
This Nashville asylum seeker faced prison for a tweet. Trump's executive order jeopardizes his future.

Feb 4, 2025 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

I met Rêdûr, a Kurdish farmer from Turkey, for tea and kebabs at an international market in South Nashville. As we ate, he told me that he and his family fled their village and came to Nashville as asylum seekers about two years ago. Now, they are among thousands facing an uncertain future after President Trump issued an executive order suspending the asylum process. On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit challenging that order.
Expert CONsensus on Visual Evaluation in Retinal disease manaGEment: the CONVERGE study

Jan 28, 2025 | bjo.bmj.com | Roger Anderson |Mark Roark |Rose Gilbert |Dayyanah Sumodhee

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Refugees approved to resettle in Tennessee are now blocked by Trump order

Jan 27, 2025 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

Flights for more than 10,000 refugees who were cleared to come to the United States have been canceled following an executive order from President Donald Trump. That includes dozens of people who had been approved to travel to Middle Tennessee. “Everything has been canceled across the country, every flight,” said Max Rykov with the Nashville International Center for Empowerment (NICE), a local refugee resettlement nonprofit.
Middle Tennessee's Syrian community celebrates after rebels oust Assad regime

Dec 9, 2024 | wpln.org | Rose Gilbert

In Murfreesboro, members of the local Syrian community sing, dance, pray and play the drums. The room is filled with Syrian flags: Some are cloth, some are hand-drawn, and still others are made up of balloons. The green, white and black stripes with three red stars is a design that predates the more than 50-year-long Assad regime. After 13 years of civil war, Syrian rebel forces have taken Damascus, and Bashar al-Assad and his family have fled to Russia, where they have been granted asylum.