Tens of thousands of migrant domestic workers work in Lebanon. For them, learning Arabic becomes a tool for empowerment and freedom.

Samar Hazboun’s latest project, “Beyond checkpoints,” documents the often forgotten stories of Palestinian women who have given birth at Israeli checkpoints

IraQueer – a new online home for the LGBTQ+ community of Iraq and Kurdistan

Voices – a blog for Syrian refugees in Jordan to share their stories.

مشروع صوت مدونة تنشر القصص من اللاجئين السوريين في الأردن. ننشر مجموعة مختارة من هذه المقالات والشعر وعلى المدونة يوجد ايضا أرشيفا كبيرا من القصص الشخصية

In Beirut’s Shatila camp, local NGO Basmeh and Zeitouneh runs a small embroidery workshop for Syrian refugee women producing scarves, bags, and other items.

We went to buy paper and crayons, went over to the Kilis 1 UN camp, and asked kids to draw images of their country. They all drew moments of war.

Constance and Philippine Proux’s work focuses on the narratives of displaced Syrians living as refugees in Akkar, a frequently unstable border region.

In this introduction to our recently published anthology Beirut Re-Collected, Mashallah News co-editor Jenny Gustafsson recalls an encounter with the residents of Shatila, a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.

On this year’s World Refugee Day, we are sharing photos by Oliver Tooke who documented the situation of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.