30 September 2024
Sarah Edgcumbe delivered an online guest lecture to the international relations class at the University of the Sacred Heart in Puerto Rico, at the kind invite of Dr Ojel Rodriguez Burgos. The lecture highlighted the entrenched discrimination and structural violence experienced by Roma in Kosovo and Gypsies in Iraq during war and beyond, including in asylum regimes, humanitarian practice, development, and peacebuilding. The lecture is in English.
VIDEO FOR THE LECTURE HERE.
Sarah Edgcumbe delivered an online guest lecture to the international relations class at the University of the Sacred Heart in Puerto Rico, at the kind invite of Dr Ojel Rodriguez Burgos. The lecture highlighted the entrenched discrimination and structural violence experienced by Roma in Kosovo and Gypsies in Iraq during war and beyond, including in asylum regimes, humanitarian practice, development, and peacebuilding. The lecture is in English.
VIDEO FOR THE LECTURE HERE.
19th July 2024
An online webinar (English language) with Lala Arabian from Insan Association, Catherine Mourtada from Tahaddi, and Dr Roy AbiJaoude from Lebanese Developers. This conversation will provide insight into the Dom community in Lebanon, with a particular emphasis on protection, development, and peacebuilding needs. The importance of community-based programming will be discussed, alongside the challenges Dom face in accessing livelihood programmes and dignified jobs. Join us on 19th July at 4pm Beirut time / 2pm BST. Details in the poster below, or email [email protected]
VIDEO LINK FOR THE EVENT HERE.
An online webinar (English language) with Lala Arabian from Insan Association, Catherine Mourtada from Tahaddi, and Dr Roy AbiJaoude from Lebanese Developers. This conversation will provide insight into the Dom community in Lebanon, with a particular emphasis on protection, development, and peacebuilding needs. The importance of community-based programming will be discussed, alongside the challenges Dom face in accessing livelihood programmes and dignified jobs. Join us on 19th July at 4pm Beirut time / 2pm BST. Details in the poster below, or email [email protected]
VIDEO LINK FOR THE EVENT HERE.
28 June 2024
An online discussion about the marginalisation and discrimination faced by Iraqi Gypsies hosted by Professor Hamied al Hashimi. Professor Hashimi will explore the causes, effects, and potential solutions to anti-Gypsyism in Iraq through conversation with award-winning journalist and social activist Manar al Zubaidi, journalist and activist Istabraq al Zubaidi, and lawyer and social activist Farah Mahmoud. Please join us! Details in the poster below, or email [email protected]
VIDEO LINK FOR THE EVENT HERE.
An online discussion about the marginalisation and discrimination faced by Iraqi Gypsies hosted by Professor Hamied al Hashimi. Professor Hashimi will explore the causes, effects, and potential solutions to anti-Gypsyism in Iraq through conversation with award-winning journalist and social activist Manar al Zubaidi, journalist and activist Istabraq al Zubaidi, and lawyer and social activist Farah Mahmoud. Please join us! Details in the poster below, or email [email protected]
VIDEO LINK FOR THE EVENT HERE.
March 2024
We would like to thank Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab, Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU), for inviting Asli and Sarah to deliver a guest lecture as part of the 'Refuge Overlooked' series.
For more information on the Refuge, Overlooked series see here.
For more information on LAU's Institute for Migration Studies, see here.
We would like to thank Dr Jasmin Lilian Diab, Director of the Institute for Migration Studies at the Lebanese American University (LAU), for inviting Asli and Sarah to deliver a guest lecture as part of the 'Refuge Overlooked' series.
For more information on the Refuge, Overlooked series see here.
For more information on LAU's Institute for Migration Studies, see here.
