28 March 2025

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

Bypassing former blunders: grassroot testimonies from Syria’s aid ecosystem prior to al-Assad’s escape (HPN, March 2025) [text]

"Can trauma from violence be genetically inherited? Scientists debate Syria refugee study," Nature, 28 March 2025 [text]

Funding cuts threaten the lives of Sudanese refugees in Egypt (UNHCR, March 2025) [text]

Gaza and Israel’s Renewed Policy of Deprivation (Just Security Blog, March 2025) [text]
- See also related UN News article and OHCHR press release, as well asa  BBC News update on death toll and CNN article on aid workers

The Media’s Role in Escalating Hate Speech and Racism Toward Syrian Refugees in Türkiye: A Video Analysis (Refugee Watch Online, March 2025) [access]

Palestinians in the West Bank are facing urgent needs amid mass displacement (MSF, March 2025) [text]
- See also related NPR story.

"Sudan's refugees face deadly game of 'snakes and ladders' in Libya," Context News, 13 March 2025 [text]

Syria after Assad: why many Syrian refugees aren’t returning home (The Conversation, March 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Humanitarian Fiction: Examining the ‘Host’ in Refugee-Receiving Contexts," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 6, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Draws on "in-depth interviews and ethnographic observations with refugees, Jordanians and humanitarian and government officials in Jordan."

Palestine: End of ceasefire and blockade in Gaza (ACAPS, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Ramifications of the Assad Regime's Destruction and Expropriation of Private Properties in Daraa Governorate with Regard to the Return of Refugees and IDPs (Syrian Network for Human Rights, March 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Refugee Influx from Syria and Sudan in Cairo: An Analysis of the Dynamics of Resilience, Hospitality and Hostility (Queen Mary Univ. of London, Feb. 2025) [access]
- Follow link for report and short film.

"Refugees as ‘Projects’: Humanitarian Responses to Displacement and Refugee-Led Organisations in Southern Turkey," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 6, no. 1 (2025) [open access]
- Focuses on Syrians.

"Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon's digital humanitarian infrastructures," Big Data & Society, 18 March 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Syrians.

"Shades of humanity: state sovereignty and humanitarian principles in the Syrian civil war," Journal of International Humanitarian Action, 10:6 (March 2025) [open access]

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