22 April 2024

Regional Focus: MENA

Focus on Gaza:
(listed in chronological order)
  • "In-depth: Israeli attempt to circumvent UN contributes to Gaza aid chaos," The New Humanitarian, 1 April 2024 [text]
  • Israeli strike on World Central Kitchen aid convoy shows growing danger of humanitarian work in conflict zones (The Conversation, 3 April 2024) [text]
  • More than 200 aid workers have been killed in Gaza, making famine more likely (The Conversation, 4 April 2024) [text]
  • Gaza, Forced Displacement, and Genocide (EJIL: Talk Blog, 5 April 2024) [text]
  • Rebuilding Gaza was seen as a ‘Herculean’ task before Oct. 7; six months of bombing has led to crises that will long outlive the war (The Conversation, 8 April 2024) [text]
  • "Six months of war in Gaza: A collection of our recent coverage," The New Humanitarian, 8 April 2024 [access]
  • Gaza Needs Humanitarian Assistance Now as Famine Sets in (Nanyang Technological Univ., 9 April 2024) [text]
  • Explainer: 3 things to know about displacement in Gaza (Kaldor Centre, 11 April 2024) [text]
  • "Aid ‘still not reaching Gaza’, as top US official warns famine has started," The Guardian, 12 April 2024 [text]
  • "UN refugee chief says outflow of Gazans into Egypt would make conflict resolution impossible," Reuters, 12 April 2024 [text]
  • Palestinians in Gaza: do they have a right to seek asylum elsewhere? (United Against Inhumanity, 16 April 2024) [text]
  • "Israeli strikes on Rafah kill 18, as Gaza death toll tops 34,000," Politico.eu, 21 April 2024 [text
  • Independent Review of Mechanisms and Procedures to Ensure Adherence by UNRWA to the Humanitarian Principle of Neutrality (UN, 22 April 2024) [access] (see also related Guardian and UN news stories) 
  • Manufacturing Famine: Israel is Committing the War Crime of Starvation in the Gaza Strip (B'Tselem, 22 April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Short pieces:

"An Identity Quandary in Lebanon," GJIA Online, 16 April 2024 [text]

"Syrians in Lebanon stay indoors as fears of xenophobic violence grow," The New Humanitarian, 22 April 2024 [text]

"Syrians who are not 'displaced' could face forced repatriation under new government proposal," L'Orient Today, 2 April 2024 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Defensive national identity relates to support for collective violence, in contrast to secure national identity, in a sample of displaced Syrian diaspora members," International Journal of Intercultural Relations, vol. 99 (March 2024) [open access]

"Determinants associated with low dietary diversity among migrants to Morocco: a cross sectional study," Scientific Reports, 14: 8361 (April 2024) [open access]

"The emergence and regression of political priority for refugee integration into the Jordanian health system: an analysis using the Kingdon’s multiple streams model," Conflict and Health, 18:30 (April 2024) [open access]

Improving the Response to Internal Displacement: How IDPs in Iraq, Syria & Yemen Experienced Access to Services & Aid Assistance during Displacement (Danish Refugee Council et al., Aril 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Journalistic and reception mechanisms of remote threat domestication: EU asylum seekers in Israeli media," Media, Culture & Society, OnlineFirst, 9 April 2024 [open access]

Localized Knowledge Ecosystems in East Africa and the Middle East (American Univ. of Beirut, July 2023) [access]
- Follow link to access outputs of this project; most of the reports focus on Jordan and Lebanon.

"On Idle Possibilities and Missed Chances: Refugee Rights in Egypt," Refugee Survey Quarterly, vol. 42, no. 3 (Sept. 2023) [full-text via CMRS]

Prospects for Resolving Displacement in Areas of Limited and No Return in Sinjar District and Qahtaniya Subdistrict (IOM, Feb. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]]

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