06 October 2025

Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

"Aid after Gaza: what is the future of the humanitarian system?," Context News, 2 Oct. 2025 [text]

Gaza’s humanitarian siege: cross-border solidarity for rescue (HPN, Sept. 2025) [text]

Bird’s Eye View Politics and the Invisibilization of Syrian Refugee Realities (RLI Blog, Sept. 2025) [text]

"Israel’s mass killing of Gaza aid seekers: An undeniable pattern of escalating atrocity crimes," The New Humanitarian, 15 Sept. 2025 [text]
- See also TNH's interactive database that "contains information on almost 200 attacks on people seeking aid in Gaza between January 2024 and the end of July this year." 

A million Syrians have returned home, but more support needed so millions more can follow (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]

Refugee protection in Egypt: what’s behind the return train to Sudan (The Conversation, Sept. 2025) [text]
- See also related Immigration Detention Monitor post.

Reports: 

Afghanistan: Forced displacement from Iran (ACAPS, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Enhanced Regional Survey on Syrian Refugees’ Perceptions and Intentions on Return to Syria: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon (UNHCR, Sept. 2025) [text]
- See also related methodology note.

Legal analysis of the conduct of Israel in Gaza pursuant to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Conference room paper of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/60/CRP.3 (UN General Assembly, Sept. 2025) [text]
- See also related Just Security post.

Migration Trends at Libya's Borders (IOM, Sept. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

No Safe Ground: Gaza’s Displaced at the Edge of Climate and Conflict (SARI Global, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

Update on UNHCR operations in the Middle East and North Africa, 76th Session of the Executive Committee of the High Commissioner's Programme, 30 Sept. 2025 [text]

Journal articles:

Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture, vol.16, nos.1-2 (April 2025) [contents]
- Special issue on "In Transit: Mapping Digital and Transnational Narratives across Tunisian Borderlands." The editorial is freely available.

"From Fear to Compassion: Dual Populisms and Syria’s Displaced in Turkey’s 2023 Elections," Journal of Intercultural Studies, Latest Articles, 23 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Lived Islam in Films: Faith-Based Resilient Responses of Syrian Refugees," Journal of Religion & Film, vol. 29, no. 2 (2025) [open access]

"The reality of migration and asylum in the Maghreb countries: Trying to understand through statistical data," Journal of El-Hikma for Philosophical Studies, vol. 13, no. 2 (2025) [full-text]

"Residual temporariness and the limits of citizenship for Syrian doctors in Turkey," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 30 Sept. 2025 [open access]

"Shifting borders: The implications of EU migration externalisation in Tunisia," Routed Magazine (July 2025) [text]

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