Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East. Show all posts
Friday, 15 June 2018

Another Day in Baghdad – Iraqi women tell their stories

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Maysoon Pachachi and crew members A couple of weeks ago, I went to a wonderful event at the Royal Court Theatre ...
Monday, 22 May 2017

Imprisoning the victims – Jordan places abused women in “protective custody”

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Credit: Equal Rights Trust In Jordan, a country with a reputation of being progressive, women and girls who go to the police to report...
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Wednesday, 4 May 2016

What drives young Syrians into ISIS?

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Young Syrian refugees in Lebanon/Russell Watkins DFID More than ideologies, it is poverty, desperation and desir...
Saturday, 20 June 2015

Another Day Lost - Mapping Syrian Refugee Camps

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Another Day Lost: 1,579 days and counting.../Installation by Issam Kourbaj            If you live in London, make sure to see t...
Monday, 23 February 2015

Yazidi girls who escaped Islamic State are trapped by trauma

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Last summer, militants from the Islamic State group attacked a small ethnic group called the Yazidis , executing men and taking thousands of...
Sunday, 18 January 2015

Lebanon - Media in a polarised country

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Talking with students from various universities in Beirut I wonder how my Lebanese colleagues manage to do any meaningful wor...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Yezidi Refugees Living in Limbo in Turkey

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Children at the Yezidi refugee camp in Batman, Turkey/Credit: Kimbal Bumstead Refugees from Iraq's Yezidi (or Yazidi) religio...
Monday, 25 August 2014

"Shout Art Loud" - Using art to fight sexual violence against women in Egypt

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--> The vast majority of women in Egypt have experienced some form of sexual harassment : it is a common occurrence on the...
Thursday, 26 June 2014

Unearthed exhibition - Syrian Artist Responds to Conflict in his Homeland

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Unearthed (in Memoriam), 2014, repurposed book covers/credit: Emma K Freeman I love artist studios with their works in progress scatte...