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refugees • 26 min read
Refugees in Egypt: ‘Hunger at home, coronavirus on the streets’
Hadeer El-Mahdawy | Most refugees have seen their substandard health and economic conditions turn into a crisis
21 May 2020
Syria • 15 min read
A remote displacement camp in the Syrian desert, now more isolated than ever
Madeline Edwards | “We feel as if every road has been shut in our faces.”
30 April 2020
refugees • 1 min read
Video | My school, my refuge
Ariane Lavrilleux and Martin Roux | Abdi resumed his basic education at the age of 18 in a private school established by refugees
27 October 2019
football • 1 min read
Video | Field of dreams
Menem Sami | Riyad Joseph, founder of Future Stars Academy, says his ambitions for the academy go beyond football
1 September 2019
art market • 13 min read
The privileged, violent stunt that is the Venice Biennale boat project
Alexandra Stock | Artist Christoph Büchel’s project, Barca Nostra, brought the hull of a fishing boat to the biennale
29 May 2019
film reviews • 9 min read
The reductive realism of Capernaum
Hessen Hossam | The world of Nadine Labaki’s Oscar-nominated Capernaum (2018) feels a little bit too chaotic
13 May 2019
refugees • 1 min read
Video | Bearing a mountain
Ariane Lavrilleux and Martin Roux | Three female refugees from Sudan Syria and Yemen talk about their lives and achievements in Cairo
5 May 2019
refugees • 17 min read
Here we go again: Saving Muslim Women and Queers in the Age of Trump
Nadine Naber | The Muslim ban accentuates the gendered and sexual “backwardness” of “Muslim” foreign nationals
18 April 2019
refugees • 6 min read
Man handed 7-year prison sentence for beating South Sudanese teacher to death nearly 2 years ago
Hadeer El-Mahdawy | A man charged with beating a South Sudanese teacher to death last year was sentenced to 7 years
27 November 2018
 
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Opinion
Tareq Baconi
Our lives are not conditional: On Sarah Hegazy and estrangement
Here is what I did not know when I chose to be in London: we carry our homes in our hearts.
23 June 2020
Parastou Hassouri
Trapped on island ‘hotspots:’ Life for refugees in Greece after the EU-Turkey deal
As the possibilities of relocating slim further, remaining in Greece is hard to accept
19 February 2018
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
 
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News
Egypt-Israel border • 4 min read
At least five Sudanese migrants shot dead by security forces near Israeli border
23 November 2015
human trafficking • 4 min read
Justice Ministry to establish special courts for human traffickers and smugglers
25 October 2015
Egyptian migrants • 3 min read
11 dead as boat carrying undocumented migrants capsizes in Balteem
11 October 2015
human trafficking • 5 min read
Smugglers could face life sentence under new migration bill
17 September 2015
Greece • 5 min read
Sawiris in negotiations over Greek islands to host refugees
15 September 2015
Egyptian rights groups statements • 3 min read
Rights groups condemn Egypt’s ongoing detention of refugees
17 March 2015
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Cartoon: Can you make some room?!
Sabry Eltawil | "Can you make some room!?""No."
14 August 2015
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