After fleeing conflict at home, African refugees battle racism in Jordan
EQUAL TIMES (22/3/2019) “There is war in Sudan. Many people are getting killed, women raped, men beaten. In Jordan, we just stay at home but it also feels like war. Discrimination. Not being able to work. It’s just like war,” says Abdul*, who fled Darfur in 2010. He is among the more than 4,000 Sudanese […]
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Framing Hope: Refugee Children in Jordan Explore Analogue Photography
LOMOGRAPHY MAGAZINE (5/2/2019) Forced to flee war with their families and to leave their homes, Iraqi and Syrian youth living in Jordan saw their childhood disrupted by displacement. But their photos still manage to capture the beauty that surrounds them: olive trees, smiles, flowers, and rays of light. In the autumn of 2018, eighteen children […]
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War is hell for animals too: In Jordan, bears, lions and tigers have found a sanctuary
MIDDLE EAST EYE (20/12/2018) Animals rescued from Aleppo, Mosul and Gaza have found new lives in a peaceful sanctuary surrounded by mountains north of Amman When he was eight years old, Loz was evacuated from Aleppo. It was July 2017, seven months after Syria’s second-largest city finally fell to the forces of Bashar al-Assad’s government. […]
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“Baynatna – the Arabic library promoting inclusion in Berlin”
AL JAZEERA (12/10/2018) On Friday evenings in Mitte, Berlin’s central district, the sound of an oud travels up from the public library’s ground floor. The Middle Eastern string instrument is being played in a room in Stadtbibliothek, Berlin’s municipal library, where Baynatna has found a home. It is the first Arabic-language public library in the German city. An […]
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Portugal, país acolhedor? Refugiados partilham histórias de discriminação
BUALA (6/8/2018) Em 2016, o primeiro-ministro António Costa anunciou a disponibilidade para aumentar a quota de refugiados. Desde então, o governo português tem reiterado o seu compromisso de receber pessoas refugiadas. Os discursos de boas-vindas aos refugiados contribuem para reforçar a auto-imagem que Portugal se abona como país acolhedor e tolerante. No entanto, segundo um relatório publicado pelo Alto […]
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Palestinian refugees use street art to keep hope alive
MIDDLE EAST EYE (14/9/2017) Streets are dim and narrow in the Palestinian refugee camp of Burj al-Barajneh, in southern Beirut. Walls are so high in the camp’s thread-like alleys, that in some places daylight is nowhere to be found. Yet colours burst off the walls where murals have been painted by Palestinian artists using art […]
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Childhood Interrupted – A photo-essay by Syrian children
LATTERLY MAGAZINE (6/11/2016) Life for Syrian refugees in Turkey is especially hard for children. Forced to leave their homes, interrupt their studies and adapt to difficult conditions of instability and vulnerability in a foreign country, Syrian children are forced to grow up too quickly. Children as young as twelve work twelve hours a day, six […]
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Síria “É melhor morrer só uma vez”
OBSERVADOR (11/4/2015) Sete milhões de deslocados, três milhões de refugiados, mais de 215 mil mortos. São números do conflito na Síria que dura há mais de 4 anos. Esta é a história de quem o viveu na primeira pessoa Amal, chamemos-lhe assim porque ela pediu para que não seja revelado o nome verdadeiro, senta-se num café […]
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Aprender a ler na Mouraria
PÚBLICO (13.6.2015) As aulas de alfabetização da associação Renovar a Mouraria, em Lisboa, já ensinam adultos a ler há dois anos mas correm o risco de ser canceladas em breve por falta de financiamento Seguram os lápis e folhas com firmeza e vão escrevendo lentamente em letras redondas: “filho”, “colher”, “milho”, “mulher”. Hoje, a aula […]
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