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  • Employment, detention, and registration: On Syrian refugees in Egypt

    news Daily News Egypt, 07 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    Couples, children, teenagers and the elderly can be seen coming in and out of Omaya in the Maadi district of Cairo with bowls of ice cream. The small ice cream store at the very end of Street 9 has been open for the past two years, and has both Syrian and Egyptian employees. Outside the small sto...
  • Arrivals by sea in Greece nearing 400,000, implementation of relocation and increased reception capacity still urgently needed

    news UNHCR, 02 Oct 2015 (8 years ago )
    Briefing Notes, 2 October 2015 This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 2 October 2015, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. Although windy autumn weather affected sea crossings from Turkey over ...
  • Despite Obstacles, Syrians Making A Home In Egypt

    news Egypt Today, 28 Oct 2015 (8 years ago )
    There are around 127,000 Syrian refugees registered with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and more than 50,000 African and Iraqi refugees in Egypt, says UNHCR Senior External Relations and Communications Officer Ragnhild Ek. Most of Syrian refugees are concentrated in Greater Ca...
  • Syrian classes ease pain of exile for refugees in Egypt

    news AP, 24 Oct 2015 (8 years ago )
    n an unfinished building on the outskirts of Cairo that echoes with the clatter of construction, a Syrian instructor walks a class of young refugees through a poetry lesson in the dialect of their war-torn country, hoping to instill knowledge and a sense of community far from home. "When a Syrian...
  • 'Warm Welsh welcome' for Syrian refugees at Christmas

    news BBC News, 23 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    Syrian refugees facing their first Christmas in Wales are sure to get a "warm Welsh welcome", the first minister has said. Carwyn Jones said Wales had a "proud tradition of being a friendly and hospitable nation". "The message of peace and hope is particularly poignant this year," he said, ref...
  • Starting again: one young man’s heart-breaking journey from Syria to Egypt

    news Thomas Reuters Foundation, 17 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. As a result of the ongoing civil war in Syria, 300,000 Syrians now live in scattered urban locations across Egypt, facing cramped living conditions and poor access to primary health facilities. Omar...
  • السوريون أصحاب الشهادات العليا في مصر .. صعوبة فرص العمل وخيار الهجرة

    news Al Aan, 20 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    اقتصرت المهن التي جاء بها السوريون إلى مصر على المهن البسيطة ذات الطابع الاستهلاكي والتي تدر لهم الربح السريع. فلما كان الاقتصاد السوري في معظمه يعتمد على الصناعات البسيطة والحرف؛ كان طابع النشاط الاقتصادي الذي أسسوا له في مصر كذلك. وبالرغم من محاولة التجار السوريون وأصحاب الحرف البسيطة أن يدرسوا...
  • تعليم السوريين في مصر .. مدارس حكومية وخاصة ومستقبل مجهول

    news El Aan, 06 Dec 2015 (8 years ago )
    يعتبر توفر التعليم المناسب للأولاد من أهم القضايا التي تقض مضجع الأسرة السورية التي أجبرتها ظروف الحرب الدائرة في البلاد منذ خمس سنوات إلى ترك كل شيء خلفها واللجوء إلى دول الجوار. وتختلف المشكلات التي تعترض واقع التعليم بالنسبة للأطفال والشباب السوريين حسب بلاد اللجوء. وقد تكون قضية اللغة هي الحا...
  • UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt calls for action on World Refugee Day

    news UNHCR, 20 Jun 2015 (8 years ago )
    UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie Pitt has been commemorating World Refugee Day with Syrian refugees in Turkey, which has overtaken Pakistan to become the world's largest refugee-hosting nation with more than 1.77 million in urban areas and government-run camps. The Special Envoy and UN High Com...
  • UNHCR airlifts urgent aid into Turkey to help refugees fleeing ISIS

    news UNHCR, 25 Sep 2014 (9 years ago )
    A first UNHCR aid flight for the surge of refugees fleeing northern Syria landed in Adana, Turkey, this morning at 9.15 local time. The A310 plane from Amman is the first of eight flights, and is part of a huge operation to bring in aid by land, sea and air for up to 200,000 refugees from UNHCR's...