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Asylum Seeker, Belonging, Hope, Human, Human Empathy, Human Story, Injustice, Kurdish, Migration, Nazim Hikmet, Poetry, Refugee, Stateless, Turkiye
Beyond Beirut…to Izmir, Turkey
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Continue reading →: Beyond Beirut…to Izmir, TurkeyI’m spending May/June in beautiful Izmir, Turkey with Imece Initiative, an NGO which helps displaced people and refugees in Turkey by implementing education and…
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Anglo-Lebanese, Architecture, Art, Beirut, Belonging, Culture, Gaza, History, Lebanon, London, Tom Young Art
BE/Longing
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Continue reading →: BE/LongingArtist Tom Young is known in Lebanon for his paintings, storytelling, architectural interventions and social activism. Tom is from Britain, but has lived in…
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Continue reading →: Narrator, Tell Us a StoryRiwayat is the Arabic word for ‘novels’ or ‘stories’. On an unusually rainy April Tuesday, I met Ahmad on the balcony of a beautiful…
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Continue reading →: War CrimeOn 13th October, the Journalist Christina Assi was reporting from the south of Lebanon for AFP News with 6 of her colleagues when they…
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Continue reading →: Learning English in the Rain“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains” – Anne Frank. 🍉🍉 I came across this quote earlier…
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Continue reading →: Mick’s StoryThis is Mick and he has an interesting story. “I was one of those people who thought that these organisations like Care 4 Calais…
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Continue reading →: Meet LeilaThis is the beautiful Leila, who has also been volunteering here at Care 4 Calais . Back at home in London, Leila works for…
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Continue reading →: Beyond Beirut…to CalaisStranded At 2am, on a cold night in January 2024, I found myself shivering in biting minus temperatures stranded at Calais port. “Parlez-vous anglais?”…
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I’m Chrissie
In 2022 I quit my job in a small INGO, and moved from London to Beirut, because of my partners job (and a desire for adventure). Read more...
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