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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionEducating the host: It's not just refugees who need ‘integration’ programmesTeaching local hosts the experience of war and forced displacement would help to publicly challenge hate speech and...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionA murder in Syria reignites the debate about so-called ‘honour killings’Despite legal reforms, the country’s fragmentation and persistent attitudes about women and girls are a barrier to...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhy it’s important to see displaced people as more than just ‘refugees’Whether to evoke sympathy or stigma, the ways that Syrians in Lebanon are represented help compound exclusion and...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionSyrian refugees in Scandinavia fear they will be forcibly returned to SyriaDenmark has decided that parts of Syria are now safe and revoked residency permits for Syrian refugees. Will other...
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Published in: 50.50: Opinion‘Living in constant fear’: Life as a journalist in SyriaWhen Zaina became a journalist, her family said she was committing a ‘sin’. Fifteen years on, she opens up about the...
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Published in: Global Extremes: OpinionWhy do churches have mixed attitudes towards the Arab Spring?Christian leaders in Egypt and Syria opposed the 2011 uprising but now their counterparts in Iraq and Lebanon back...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionHow is Turkey answering its ‘Kurdish question’?Ankara treats all Kurdish opposition whether peaceful or militant as terrorism. And it is taking its war into...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: InvestigationUK government accused of ‘grotesque betrayal’ as full foreign aid cuts revealedExclusive: Leaks reveal plans to slash aid to world’s poorest countries. Bob Geldof brands move ‘shameful’ while...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyrian prison literature and human rights: an interview with Shareah TaleghaniLiterature about prison has actually assisted international campaigns in the release of individual detainees.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaCOVID-19 has deepened the 'pandemic of poverty' for Palestinian refugees in LebanonSocial 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 apoliticalWhy 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 AsiaHow Syria’s Afrin became hell for KurdsTurkish backed militias have turned life in Afrin into one of constant fear of torture, kidnapping, and death.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaWhat are Syrian mercenaries doing in Azerbaijan?How can we understand the presence of Turkish backed Syrian mercenaries in Azerbaijan?
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhy isn’t Donald trumpeting his foreign policy record?Afghanistan, North Korea, ISIS, Israel and the Gulf States: they’re at best partial successes, but that never...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow a generation of Syrian children in Lebanon were robbed of their educationRacism, xenophobia, and corruption rendered hundreds of thousands of Syrian children “a lost generation”.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Reimagining victory by winning the peaceIf we want to see societies win the peace we need a concept of victory that is about justice and reconciliation,...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaSyria: local agreements, regional rivalry and a global pandemicAs the regime moves towards capturing Idlib, rivalry between Russia and Iran to control Syria is growing.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaHow does authoritarianism survive in Syria? An interview with Lisa WedeenHow did the emergence of a civil-war autocracy in Syria change the way the regime reproduces its power?
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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 AsiaRojava: statelessness in a time of pandemicLack of international recognition as a state has disastrous consequences on an area already suffering from war and...
