28 August 2020

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Opportunities:

Job announcement: Special Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner-General, UNRWA [info]
- Apply by 7 September 2020.

Call for submissions: Alixa Naff Migration Studies Prize [info]
- Open to "scholarly studies from any discipline focusing on any aspect of Middle East/North African migrations and diasporas." Submissions deadline is 30 September 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Beirut Blast Death Toll Includes Dozens of Refugees, Emergency Response Ramps Up (UNHCR, Aug. 2020) [text]
- See also related briefing note.

Ignoring Iraq’s Most Vulnerable Displaced Families Undermines US Stabilization Agenda in Iraq (Just Security Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

IOM, UNHCR Call for Urgent Action after 45 Die in Largest Recorded Shipwreck off Libya Coast in 2020 (IOM, Aug. 2020) [text]

Lebanon’s Invisible: Refugees, COVID-19, and the Beirut Port Explosion (Middle East Institute, Aug. 2020) [text]

*Summer Writing on Refugee Collective Action in Beirut (Maya Janmyr Blog, Aug. 2020) [text]

Multimedia:

MEI Displacement and Migration Initiative (Middle East Institute) [access]
- Follow link for video recordings of four webinars that discussed mental health, protest movements, gender issues and displacement in the context of COVID-19.

Policy and Livelihoods: A Conversation on Syrian Refugees (Center for Global Policy) [access]
- Follow link for podcast and transcript.

*UPDATED

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