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SolidariTee

SolidariTee is a student-led campaign which fundraises for legal aid for refugees through the medium of selling t-shirts. Started in 2017 by Cambridge University student Tiara Sahar Ataii, the campaign was a response to both the decreasing media coverage of the refugee crisis and the frustration with the ‘echo chamber’...

Photography from conflict zones: but not as you know it.

The majority of images we see of Afghanistan, Yemen, Mali, and Syria are through the lens of professional photographers. War isolates talented individuals from the outside world. Aside from news agencies covering conflict, photographers from war-torn countries have few opportunities to sell their work. ISHKAR’s latest initiative has brought together...

Sidra’s Diary (Istanbul, Turkey)

Fifteen-year-old Sidra Yussef is a romantic and a big dreamer. In her imagined future life she is an astronomer living in a cottage on a mountainside; someone with a special home just like her beloved grandparents had. Growing up in Damascus as a Circassian – a minority ethnic group in...

Hanan’s Diary (Berlin, Germany)

Two days after 23 year old Hanan married the love of her life in Syria she was forced to leave him behind and start a new life in Germany. In 2012 as fighting intensified in their area she and her parents and three siblings had applied for a family visa...

The Terkawi’s Diary (Oxelosund, Sweden)

Dr Ahmad Terkawi and his young family reached Greece by boat in 2015, and from there they relocated to Sweden. Squeezed together in a single room in a refugee hostel in Oxelsund, Ahmad tries to create a sense of normality for his small sons, all the while establishing the Maritime...

Eiad’s Diary (London, UK)

Eiad is a 31 year old dentist from Damascus. He reached the UK by smuggling himself onto the back of a lorry in late 2014, and since then he has been trying to find his place in the country’s capital city. Through his diaries we hear how his approach is...

Platforming art ‘through refugee eyes’

Abdulazez Dukhan is a Syrian photographer and fine artist who lives in Brussels. As well as starting the Facebook page ‘Through Refugee Eyes’, where he shares stories and portraits of fellow refugees in the camp in Greece where he lived for 8 months, he is a talented digital artist. Below...

Birdsong

For independently-minded women who want their clothing to make a statement about their values, Birdsong delivers original wardrobe staples that are ethical and sustainable, made by expert women makers in the UK. All of Birdsong’s clothes are made by women facing barriers to employment in London for a living wage....

Breaking Barriers

We live in a political climate that is hostile to immigration across the board. In this context, complicated and messy human lives are all too often reduced to a series of crude categories: refugee, economic migrant, deserving, undeserving. These categories cannot hope to capture the complex set of circumstances that...