Marie-Helene Rousseau @MH_Rousseau

For years, female migrants and asylum seekers in Greece have contended with pervasive and consistent sexual and gender based violence (SGBV). On repeated...

On September 18, 2018, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar released its full report to the UN Human Rights Council, documenting the...

The Global Compact on Refugees and the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration will be adopted at the 2018 UN General Assembly, which is...

Born in Bethlehem, but raised overseas, critically acclaimed Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir has dedicated her life and art to exploring Palestinian...

The United Nations recently warned that “the most horrific battle of the seven-year Syria war” could soon unfold in country's northernmost governorate of...

Latitude Adjustment, a new podcast conceived and hosted by Eric Maddox, promises listeners a “journey around the world through conversation.” The...

Doria Shafik, born in Tanta, Egypt, in 1908, spent her life fighting for the political and social rights of Egyptian women. She used journalism, hunger...

As of August 14, 75% of Cairo’s Maspero district has been demolished, and along with it, a crucial part of Egypt’s heritage. The residents of Maspero, a...

On Monday, August 6, the Italian parliament voted to donate twelve rescue boats to the Libyan coastguard, perpetuating a policy that endangers the lives of...

On Sunday, July 29, Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi was released to her hometown of Nabi Saleh, after eight months in an Israeli prison. The...

Burj Barajneh refugee camp, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, was established in 1948 to house refugees fleeing from the Galilee in northern Palestine....

To call Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s relationship with the media and social media “contentious” is a dramatic understatement. Since he took...

Illustration by Eman Wasef for Muftah Writing is often a means of making a home wherever we find ourselves. Muftah explores this theme in “A Home in the...

Amidst a rise in populism across the European Union, EU states are implementing unlawful measures to push back or return refugees and asylum seekers fleeing...

Since the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, Syrian women, as a group, have taken on new roles, as reflected by an increase in the number of female headed...

On June 27, 2018, Saudi women celebrated a hard-fought human rights victory - the lifting of the ban on women drivers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)....

Between May 5 and June 9, 2018, the United States Department of Homeland Security separated 2,342 children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. They...

On June 11, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the United States will no longer recognize domestic or gang violence as legitimate grounds for...

On June 7, 2018, the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) released its annual list of the ten most neglected displacement crises. The ongoing displacement crisis in...

On May 26, 2018, Mamoudou Gassama was on his way to a soccer match in Paris, when he saw a crowd gathered around an apartment building, their eyes directed...

So far in 2018, only eleven Syrian refugees have been admitted into the United States, according the U.S. State Department. This appalling number stands in...

On Wednesday, May 16, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el Sisi continued a Ramadan tradition of granting presidential pardons en masse, freeing 330 prisoners,...

As international attention continues to wane, refugee arrivals to the Greek islands are on the rise. On May 6, 2018, 350 refugees reached the shores of Lesvos...

In a March 2018 television interview, Egypt’s Minister of Environment Khaled Fahmy bemoaned the country's current garbage collection system, stating that...

Two weeks after being shot while reporting on the Great Return March protests in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian journalist Ahmad Abu Hussein, twenty-four,...

In what is being referred to as “Pakistan’s biggest Me too moment,” Pakistani actor and singer Meesha Shafi recently accused Pakistani actor and singer...

Two young Palestinians, Yousef Karnaz, 20, and Mohammad Al-‘Ajouri, 17, recently fell victim to a punitive Israeli policy restricting access to healthcare...

Now in its eighth year, the Syrian conflict has taken an undue toll on the country’s youngest generation. According to a study by the Pulitzer Center, 79...

It is difficult to quantify the full, horrifying magnitude of of the atrocities that have occurred in Eastern Ghouta over the past months. Since February 19,...

A year ago, as a volunteer with the Swedish humanitarian organization Lighthouse Relief (LHR), Daphne Morgen noticed there were few opportunities for the many...

On March 12, 2018, National Geographic magazine launched its “Diversity in America” series with “The Race Issue,” which includes a painful but...

Kharabish Nasawiya (خرابيش نسوية), which loosely translates to "Feminist Doodles," is a Facebook page that was launched on March 8, 2017, ...

The Arabic word Habibti (حبيبتي), derived from “hob,” (حب) or “love,” is used as a term of endearment in the Middle East and North Africa. The...

The first female fixer in Gaza; the editor-in-chief of a decades-old, family-run independent newspaper in Yemen who is constantly on the move, fearing for his...

On Thursday, February 8, a group of journalists gathered at Sixth & I Synagogue in Washington D.C., for an in-depth discussion on the theme of “The M...

The Trump administration’s attack on women's reproductive rights has been playing out in immigration detention centers, where unaccompanied, undocumented...

“How unlucky is Zafar, for his burial/To not have even two yards in the land of his beloved.” Urdu poet and the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar,...

Have you ever wondered about the inner-workings of the baklava industry? Do the origins of Arabic typography pique your interest? Or have you always heard the...

The phrase “shithole countries” is now part of an ever-expanding lexicon of cringeworthy terminology that will undoubtedly be chronicled in historical...

In the digital age, access to information and self-representation are human rights. Refugees and migrants on the move face a distinct and dangerous lack of...

On December 23, 2017, an unusual sight graced the streets of Chalkida, a small Greek town outside Athens surrounded by mountains, and famed for the rapidly...

As winter descends on Greece, many refugees and asylum seekers on the country's islands are witnessing an all too familiar scene, nearly two years after the...

In April 2013, a five-year-old girl  was admitted to Panzi Hospital in the city of Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Her body bore the signs...

The “global primal scream” of the #MeToo movement has elevated conversations worldwide about how traditional gender roles perpetuate unequal dynamics that...

It has been a rough week in the court of public opinion for journalist Thomas Friedman, whose interview with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince...

In the latest installment of Egypt’s growing list of absurd judicial incidents, popular Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel Wahab is facing legal action because of...

Egypt has long lured international travelers with its most famed sights: the Pyramids, the Temple of Luxor, the Cairo Citadel, and many more. But a new...

On November 6, 2017, a dinghy set sail from Libya, carrying 140 refugees and migrants fleeing to Italy. Like many of the flimsy vessels making the dangerous...

"If your ideas could change the world, develop a country, cure a patient or help a child, we need to talk." With these words, a YouTube video released on...