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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 has deepened the 'pandemic of poverty' for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Social and economic upheaval in Lebanon in 2020 has deepened and magnified the poverty of Palestinian refugees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFor young Syrian refugees, education and employment cannot remain apolitical
Why is it that despite the huge efforts invested by donors and UN agencies, do young refugees continue to struggle...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat can the 2019 uprisings in North Africa and West Asia teach us?
Only by building regional bridges can effective resistance to global capitalism be achieved.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIs Lebanon becoming a police state?
A year after protests swept the country, two and a half months after the Beirut port explosion, the Lebanese elite...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaIn the absence of the state, people are leading Beirut’s recovery
A month after the Beirut blast, a people-centred recovery is key to peaceful change.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMy name is Winnie, I survived Lebanon’s kafala system
With Lebanon’s economic crisis deteriorating, the already dire situation of migrant domestic workers is getting even harder.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLebanon’s deadly blast: when corruption turned into carnage
Since the massive explosion, the state has been absent, leaving people to fend for themselves – while leaders seem...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their education
Racism, xenophobia, and corruption rendered hundreds of thousands of Syrian children “a lost generation”.
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Published in: Migrant FuturesFor migrant workers in the MENA, flattening the curve of inequality is urgent
The global COVID-19 pandemic is not the root cause of migrant exploitation, discrimination and vulnerability but it...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaUnderground Botox: what is essential and what is not during a global pandemic?
COVID-19 might have changed people’s perception of what is considered essential, but the perception of necessities...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaPoverty or virus? Lebanon’s uprising continues despite the pandemic
Despite increasing protests, the coronavirus crisis remains a double-edged sword for the Lebanese uprising.
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Published in: 50.50Stuck in a foreign land with no passport or work
I support family in Ethiopia, have to pay my Lebanese sponsor who keeps my passport - and my cleaning work has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat the coronavirus outbreak means for thousands of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon
Without access to health care, anxieties and fear intensified as refugees face the increasing threat of a COVID-19 outbreak.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaEthiopians in Lebanon: between revolution and slavery
The Ethiopian government continues to sidestep taking any meaningful action to rescue citizens trapped in revolution...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaFilming Syria: the politics of access
Does Ahmad Ghossein's film contribute to the erasure of the history of the Syrian revolution?
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia“Where are my rights?” African refugees vs. UNHCR in Lebanon
A new episode unfolds in the long history of tensions between African refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers and UNHCR.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaGrappling between past and future: will Lebanon’s political economy reproduce itself?
Will Harirism resuscitate yet again, perhaps under a different face, or will the Lebanese people successfully bury it?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Europe’s migration tourniquet comes full circle
For every asylum application that was accepted in the EU last year, two were rejected. Anti-migration rhetoric has...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMutations of Arab political filmmaking
The 2011 uprisings marked a turning point, as new forms of cinematic language and style began to emerge.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSeven Ethiopians die in Lebanon while their consulate abandons them
The steady stream of coffins being shipped from Lebanon to Ethiopia, won’t be slowing any time soon.