On June 4, 2022, the Thai navy found 59 Rohingya from Myanmar stranded on Koh Dong Island near Satun province in southern Thailand. The...

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...

Saudi Arabia is not a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention, the main global refugee protection instrument. The country neither has any...

The music of Yemen is slightly different from traditional Arabic music. It is predominantly vocal, and it does not use the maqam...

Palestine is located between the Meditteranean Sea & the Jordan River. However, nowadays Palestine is only a de jure sovereign state,...

#Protests erupted in #Lebanon on 17 October 2019 after the government announced taxation on WhatsApp calls and other messenger services....

#Fairuz (Nuhad Haddad) was born in 1933 in #Beirut, #Lebanon. In 1947, Fairuz, who was 14, was discovered by Mohammad Fleifel, one of the...

Lebanon hosts the largest number of refugees per capita. There are an estimated 1.5 million #Syrian refugees and about 16,000 refugees of...

In the past, #migration in #Lebanon was attributed to the persecution of #Christians, who made up a large percentage of the immigrants...

Syria is home to one of the oldest and most advanced civilizations in the world. While Arab Muslims and Christians make up the majority...

The Syrian Arab Republic borders Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon. Since the 16th century BCE the region has been controlled by...

The art of embroidery has a significant role in everyday life and pieces like religious hangings for mosques, prayer carpets, and Koranic...

In the late 1950s, Western European countries experienced an economic boom and required foreign labor. In this context, an agreement was...

Dance and music are also essential aspects of the Armenian heritage. First, the music consisted of Church music and folk songs, together...

The #Hamidian#Massacres (the late 1800s) and Armenian #genocide (early 1900s) were the first major waves of Armenians to the United...

The Republic of Armenia contains a largely Christian population and is located south of the Caucasus mountain range and borders Georgia,...

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...

The Kurds are one of the largest ethnic group of people of the Mesopotamian plains and the highlands what is now south-eastern Turkey,...

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...

Iraq is a Muslim nation with #Arabic and #Kurdish as its official languages. The #flag of Iraq is composed of three colours in horizontal...