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24 September 2018

Regional Focus: MENA, incl. Syria

Events:

Harrell-Bond lecture: In a Troubled and Polarized Middle-East: Challenges for Palestine Refugees and UNRWA, Oxford, 18 October 2018 [info]
- Register by 8 October 2018.

Seminar: Unpacking the Stranger: Listening to the lives of Darufris in Amman and Cairo, Cairo, 17 October 2018 [info]

Publications:

*Advancing the Impossible? Progress of the Joint African, European and International Response to the Migration Crisis in Libya (European Centre for Development Policy Management, Sept. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Border Control and the Criminalisation of African Asylum Seekers in Israel (Border Criminologies Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

Challenges upon Return in West Mosul: An Assessment of the Neighbourhoods of Al-Yarmouk, Tal Al-Rumman, and Al-Mamoun (Human Appeal & UNHCR, 2018?; posted Sept. 2018) [text via ReliefWeb]

Defunding Aid for Palestinian Refugees is Not a Road to Peace (The Hill, Sept. 2018) [text]

Destination Europe: Overlooked (IRIN, Sept. 2018) [text]
- "At Libya’s unchecked southern borders, a key to easing the migration crisis."

*"Editorial: Egypt Plays the Migration Game," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 21 Sept. 2018 [text]

"For African Migrants in Israel, a Life of Hardship in the Promised Land," VOA News, 14 Sept. 2018 [text]

How the Syrian Regime Controls Refugee Return: Four Tools (Clingendael, Sept. 2018) [text]

*"The Humanitarian Response in Yemen," High-Level Event in the Margins of the 73rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, 24 Sept. 2018 [concept note] [audiovisual]
- See also related UN news release.

In One Move, Trump Eliminated US Funding for UNRWA and the US Role as Mideast Peacemaker (Order from Chaos Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

Morocco: Relentless Crackdown on Thousands of Sub-Saharan Migrants and Refugees is Unlawful (Amnesty International, Sept. 2018) [text]

"Morocco in the Middle," African Arguments, 17 Sept. 2018 [text]

Refugees as City-makers (American Univ. of Beirut, Sept. 2018) [text]
- "[T]this publication approaches the study of forced population displacements through the lens of individual and collective agency and the transformative roles that individuals tagged as refugees play as home-makers, city navigators, urban producers, or political subjects." Focuses particularly on Syrians in Lebanon. Video of the launch event for this publication is also available.

"The Resettling of Palestinian Refugees is the Core of the Trump Deal," Middle East Monitor, 21 Sept. 2018 [text]

"UNHCR Says Tripoli Facility Ready to Help Refugees," VOA News, 8 Sept. 2018 [text]

The United States can Stop a Looming Catastrophe for 3 Million Syrians (Order from Chaos Blog, Sept. 2018) [text]

*UPDATED

Related posts:
- Regional Focus: Syria (10 Sept. 2018)
- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1 (Libya, Palestinians) (5 Sept. 2018)
- Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 2 (5 Sept. 2018)

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