
Inactive account. Prof. International Migration Law @UniOslo | PI @non_signatory | Humanitarianism & refugees | All things 🇱🇧 #StopArmingIsrael
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Together with @jasminldiab, I write for @alrawiyamag about how Israel's war on Lebanon has further alienated and marginalized migrants workers.
Thank you @Michelle3id for giving us space and @alineldeschamps for stunning photos. 🙏
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So my brilliant friend @jasminldiab just won the Lisa Gilad prize at IASFM 2025 for this piece of work. Bursting with pride!
Paper out in @JMHSjournal today. It's been such a painful year.
This study engages with Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian LGBTIQ+ IDPs from South Lebanon, where the intersection of their sexual and gender identities with displacement necessitates a precarious balance—staying invisible to most while selectively visible to a trusted few.
The research challenges rigid distinctions between "refugee" and "IDP" for this group, emphasizing the need for inclusive frameworks that reflect the intersectional realities of the hyper-marginalized in displacement.
Full paper, here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Opinion for @newhumanitarian, here: thenewhumanitarian.org/opini…
Hot off the press!
My new article on refugee rights claiming through protest at UNHCR Beirut.
Free e-prints available here: tandfonline.com/eprint/IVH6P…
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We are on our way @IASFMglobal in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Looking forward to an exciting week ahead!
iasfm.org/iasfm2025/
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Palestinians don’t need your sympathy or your symbolic gestures. We need you to cut ties with our killers and colonizers. We need you to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. Yes that includes academic institutions, whose commitment to genocide is well documented.
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The Syrian regime had barely fallen that European states were suspending asylum procedures, and considering the repatriation of refugees. Such precipitation is obscene and undue.
It’s also counterproductive: It will slow the flow of volunteer returns instead of enabling them 🧵
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Have you conducted operations with "business as usual" or shown true empathy to colleagues suffering in #wars & #disaster? A good end of year reminder to not just pay lipservice but to nurture policies for #solidarity and #care.
#inclusion #conflict #Management
Have you checked in on your colleagues affected by #war or #disaster? Have you revisited the way you are operating to make sure that you are not leaving behind women affected by #conflict and displacement in parts of the #MENA? Have you reviewed daily practices to make meetings #inclusive for those with limited access? True empowerment lifts everyone up, and does not wait for 16 days of activism to show solidarity.
#HumanRightsDay #EverydayActivism #16daysofactvisim
The SAWI Project, funded by #StateDept and #MEPI
@AUB_Lebanon @usembassybeirut @USMEPI @Telfer_uOttawa
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To all those who wanted so desperately to declare #Syria as safe for refugee returns, I hope you watch these scenes and feel shame and remorse. To all those that revoked protection and deported thousands: This should be a reckoning.
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Many Lebanese officials celebrating Assad’s fall today are ones that continuously called for mass deportations of Syrians to Syria, & into Assad’s dungeons, despite warnings by rights orgs
May this be a moment of reckoning for world leaders. Syria was never safe under Assad.
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Damascus the first morning after its second independence - it’s true independence.
The sense of ecstasy is hard to describe
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BREAKING - Syria Rebels announce Damascus "free from the tyrant Bashar al-Assad"
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Syrians celebrate outside of the Norwegian parliament as the Assad regime faces what looks like its end.
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Jeg hevder i Aftenposten i dag at Cooper, Dahl og Hellestveit gir et tildels misvisende og ufullstendig bilde av folkerettsreglene som gjelder for krigføringen i Midtøsten.
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#BREAKING Norway's sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, divests from Israel's Bezeq for providing telecoms services to the Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
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In the latest episode of our podcast 'Transit' @univienna, historian @PeterGatrell talks about aspects of his longstanding research into 20th century migration and possible future perspectives for historical research on these topics. Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/6Mr…
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In its first operation since the ceasefire announcement, #Hezbollah confirmed it targeted the Ruwaisat al-Alam site in the Kfar Shuba hills. In a statement on Monday, it described the attack as an “initial warning” in response to Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations in recent days which killed two individuals in Nabatieh and Marjayoun on Monday.
Hezbollah stated that Israeli violations have taken various forms, including shooting at civilians, airstrikes on different areas across Lebanon, and the continued violation of Lebanese airspace by warplanes. The statement also noted that attempts to address these violations with the relevant parties were unsuccessful, prompting the group to carry out this attack.
The Israeli occupation army has violated the ceasefire more than 74 times since the agreement came into effect last Wednesday. Israeli media reported that US Special Envoy Amos Hochstein informed Israeli officials about violations on their part, with France warning Israel about the “risk of the ceasefire agreement collapsing in #SouthernLebanon” due to the violations.
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The Israeli army violated the #ceasefire in #Lebanon 74 times since the agreement came into effect on November 27, killing two people and injuring six others, according to a tally by Anadolu Agency.
On Monday, the Israeli army fired machine guns at homes in the town of Naqoura in #southernLebanon and renewed its warning to residents of 62 southern towns not to return to them. On Sunday, the occupation army committed 11 violations, targeting the towns of Khiam, Yaroun, Maroun al-Ras, Aitaroun and Rashaya al-Fukhar with artillery and machine guns.
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[Dispatches From the Lebanese Front] Last month, close to 100 people from Sudan, Ethiopia, and Cameroon protested outside UN ESCWA’s downtown Beirut headquarters, chanting “where is your humanity?” and demanding the UN evacuate them from Lebanon to a safe third country as asylum seekers.
Most of the roughly 176,000 migrant workers in Lebanon have been left to fend for themselves; formal shelters for the displaced are turning them away, and many are unable to leave Lebanon because they lack the means to do so or because their home countries are also at war.
With few options left, the protesters turned to the United Nations to demand recognition as asylum seekers and evacuation to safe third countries.
Videographer Firas Haidar (@FirasHaidar) spoke to organizers and protestors at the ESCWA demonstration.





























