Regional Focus: MENA

Short pieces:

"A Blueprint for Complicity"- Three Years On, EU-Tunisia Deal Continues to Fuel Human Rights Violations: Joint Statement by 46 Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations (Human Rights Watch et al., July 2026) [text]

- See also related HRW news release.

The Human Cost of Migration Deterrence in Egypt (E-International Relations, July 2026) [text]

Thirty-one organisations call on the EU to urgently end abusive migration cooperation with Libyan authorities (Amnesty International et al., July 2026) [text]

Reports:

Humanitarian Access and Protection Under Siege: A Focus on Gaza, Sudan, Syria, Yemen and Lebanon (Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, June 2026) [text via UCL]

Lebanon - Syrian Refugee Return: Snap Return Intentions, Perceptions and a Qualitative Analysis (UNHCR, June 2026) [text]

Living Conditions of Vulnerable Palestinian Refugees in Jordan: Access, Assistance and Experience of UNRWA Service Users (Fafo Institute, July 2026) [text via ReliefWeb]

Quick impact projects: Sixteen facilities rehabilitated by UNHCR in 2025 (UNHCR, July 2026) [text]

- Focuses on Libya.

Southern Responses to Displacement from Syria: Views from Lebanon, Jordan, Türkiye and Beyond (UCL Migration Research Unit, 2025; posted June 2026) [text]

Underfunding Syrian refugees in Lebanon & Turkey after Assad’s fall, MidEast Policy Brief, no. 1 (PRIO, 2026) [text]

Journal articles:

"Drought amplifies the psychological burden of war," Nature Sustainability, 22 July 2026 [open access]

"Everyday Humanitarianism: Household-Level Refugee–Refugee Hosting as a Humanitarian Act in Amman, Jordan," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"From Syria to Gaza: A Critical Analysis of the Changing Role of Neutrality in Humanitarian Discourse," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Transferts européens et dynamiques endogènes : politisation et racialisation de l’immigration subsaharienne en Tunisie," Mondes & Migrations, no. 1354 (2026) [open access]

"The Unknowable Cost of Camps: An Exploration of WASH Spending in Zaatari Camp, Jordan," Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, vol. 7, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

Multimedia:

Lebanon at a Breaking Point: Conflict, Displacement, and the Regional Protection Crisis, 9 July 2026 [access]

Tahjeer Podcast [access]

- "[A] podcast devoted to examining displacement across the Arab world as an engineered political, economic, and social process. Through conversations with scholars, practitioners, journalists, and international experts, TAHJEER moves beyond statistics to explore the histories, policies, conflicts, and systems of power that produce displacement and shape the lives of refugees and internally displaced people. Each episode seeks to connect academic knowledge with lived experience and to make research on forced migration accessible to wider audiences." See also related post on the Forced Migration List.

Related post:

- Regional Focus: MENA (9 July 2026)