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Bleak winter for refugees in the Middle East

Bleak winter for refugees in the Middle East

Mel Plant, BA Arabic and Turkish Last winter saw the Middle East coated in an unprecedented amount of snow. Social media was flooded with images of snow-fights at the Dome of the Rock, with major cities like Cairo covered in snow for the first time in a hundred years. Many

SOAS goes to Calais to meet Syrian refugees

SOAS goes to Calais to meet Syrian refugees

Marta Garcia Aliaga, LLB (Law) They are 80. And they are trapped behind the double wall of barbed wire that separates the French city of Calais and the English Channel. All forms of transport that could take them to the promised land that is meant to grant them asylum — Britain