Tom Rollins

Tom Rollins is a Cairo-based freelance journalist. @rollinz

Opinion

Tom Rollins

Refuge and the myth of the liberal welcome

It is a welcome with caveats: asylum comes with a time limit, rights with conditions

13 July 2017

Tom Rollins

The murder of British MP Jo Cox is political

Last week, on a grey-looking street with a little cafe and a dry cleaning shop, in a town that could

22 June 2016

Tom Rollins

Under the pavement

You can be forgiven for thinking June 30 was the end of something and the beginning of something else.

1 December 2013

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The difficult route of returning to Syria

Tom Rollins | Now that the balance of power is tilting toward the regime, who will be able to go back?

14 March 2017

Europe’s migration trade with Egypt

Sofian Philip Naceur and Tom Rollins | Is cooperation between Egypt and the EU putting migrants at risk?

1 February 2017

Egypt’s anti-smuggling bill: New criminals, old victims

Muhammad al-Kashef and Tom Rollins | Parliament passes landmark anti-smuggling law, but what will it change?

19 October 2016

Is Egypt the new gateway to Europe?

Muhammad al-Kashef and Tom Rollins | There has been a notable change in the demographic using the Central Mediterranean route to Italy: while

11 August 2016

The socio-economics of diaspora

Tom Rollins | The majority of Syrian refugees registered with UNHCR in Egypt are now classed as “severely vulnerable,”

22 November 2015

Education interrupted

Tom Rollins | Syrians in Egypt “live like any Egyptian citizen” with access to housing, healthcare and education,

28 October 2015

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News

Smugglers could face life sentence under new migration bill

17 September 2015