Rohingya Refugees in Thailand
On June 4, 2022, the Thai navy found 59 Rohingya from Myanmar stranded on Koh Dong Island near Satun province in southern Thailand. The...
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Upasana Ghosh
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Refugee policies in Japan
Japan is a signatory nation of the UN Refugee Convention of 1950. However, it has one of the harshest asylum laws in the world. According...
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Anupama Ghosh
- Sep 18, 2022
- 2 min
Can refugees seek protection in Saudi Arabia?
Saudi Arabia is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, the main global refugee protection instrument. The country neither has any...
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Sindhuja Sankaran
- May 22, 2022
- 2 min
Yemeni music
The music of Yemen is slightly different from traditional Arabic music. It is predominantly vocal, and it does not use the maqam...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Apr 27, 2022
- 2 min
History of Palestine
Palestine is located between the Meditteranean Sea & the Jordan River. However, nowadays Palestine is only a de jure sovereign state,...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Apr 11, 2022
- 2 min
Anti-government protests in Lebanon
#Protests erupted in #Lebanon on 17 October 2019 after the government announced taxation on WhatsApp calls and other messenger services....
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Rethinking Refugees
- Apr 10, 2022
- 2 min
Fairuz
#Fairuz (Nuhad Haddad) was born in 1933 in #Beirut, #Lebanon. In 1947, Fairuz, who was 14, was discovered by Mohammad Fleifel, one of the...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Apr 7, 2022
- 1 min
Refugees in Lebanon
Lebanon hosts the largest number of refugees per capita. There are an estimated 1.5 million #Syrian refugees and about 16,000 refugees of...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Apr 6, 2022
- 2 min
Lebanese migration
In the past, #migration in #Lebanon was attributed to the persecution of #Christians, who made up a large percentage of the immigrants...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 26, 2022
- 2 min
Syrian culture
Syria is home to one of the oldest and most advanced civilizations in the world. While Arab Muslims and Christians make up the majority...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
History of Syria
The Syrian Arab Republic borders Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon. Since the 16th century BCE the region has been controlled by...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 12, 2022
- 1 min
Turkish embroidery
The art of embroidery has a significant role in everyday life and pieces like religious hangings for mosques, prayer carpets, and Koranic...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 10, 2022
- 1 min
Turkish migration
In the late 1950s, Western European countries experienced an economic boom and required foreign labor. In this context, an agreement was...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 6, 2022
- 2 min
Armenian dance
Dance and music are also essential aspects of the Armenian heritage. First, the music consisted of Church music and folk songs, together...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
Armenian migration
The #Hamidian#Massacres (the late 1800s) and Armenian #genocide (early 1900s) were the first major waves of Armenians to the United...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Mar 2, 2022
- 2 min
Refugees from Armenia
The Republic of Armenia contains a largely Christian population and is located south of the Caucasus mountain range and borders Georgia,...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Feb 26, 2022
- 1 min
Kurdish culture
The Kurds are an ethnic group in West Asia. They reside in the northern parts of the middle east by the Taurus and Zagros mountain region...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Feb 23, 2022
- 1 min
Kurdish refugees
The Kurds are one of the largest ethnic group of people of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands what is now south-eastern Turkey,...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Feb 20, 2022
- 1 min
Iraqi weaving art
Do you think about art when you hear the word “Iraq”? No? Well, probably you are not the only one! But we, Rethinking Refugees, want to...
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Rethinking Refugees
- Feb 19, 2022
- 1 min
Iraqi culture
Iraq is a Muslim nation with #Arabic and #Kurdish as its official languages. The #flag of Iraq is composed of three colours in horizontal...
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