Posts Tagged ‘Palestinian refugees’

Syrian and Palestinian refugees can be helped by better representation on TV and in film

As Syrians go West, they are met with the anxiety of many who may have only met them before through negative media portrayal. The first wave of Arab and Muslim immigration to the U.S. and Europe was via slavery. The first recorded Arabic speaker to come to North America was called Zammouri, which in Arabic […]

The birth of Europe’s refugee crisis 

By Jamal Kanj Many years ago I read Men in the Sun, a novel by the late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. He, along with his young niece Lamis, were blown up by Israel in 1972. In the book, Kanafani told the tale of three desperate Palestinian refugees from Lebanon who hid in an empty water […]

More Typhoid Cases among Palestinian Refugees in Syria: UNRWA

nsnbc : The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) reports nine new cases of typhoid among Palestinian refugees that have been displaced due to fighting in Yarmouk, Damascus and host communities. The agency urges donors, stressing that it only received 31% of the funds to cover its work for Palestinian refugees in Syria.  An […]

Jordan to deport Palestinian refugee to Syria

Jordan plans to deport back to Syria a Palestinian refugee who fled Damascus’ Yarmouk Camp with his son two years ago, Middle East Eye has learned. “According to reliable reports, Wael al-Sahlee, a Palestine refugee who left Syria with his eight year old son, is being deported from Jordan back to Syria,” said Chris Gunness, spokesman […]

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