القاهرة، جمهورية مصر العربية، 15 مايو/أيار (المفوضية السامية للأمم المتحدة لشؤون اللاجئين) – منذ أن أُجبرت تهاني، وهي امرأة سورية تبلغ من العمر 35 عاماً، على مغادرة سوريا مع عائلتها هرباً من الرعب والدمار، لم يعد شيء كما كان من قبل. وصلت تهاني وزوجها أحمد إلى مصر مع عائلتهما في عام 2012، وهما متز...

نظمت مفوضية الأمم المتحدة لشئون اللاجئين بالإسكندرية، اليوم، ومكتبة الإيداع بمكتبة الإسكندرية ومنظمة الأمم المتحدة للأمومة والطفولة UNICEF، احتفالية بمناسبة اليوم العالمى للتنوع الثقافى. وتضمنت الاحتفالية مجموعة من الأغانى القصيرة وعرضاً مسرحياً، ويقدمها مجموعة من شباب وأطفال اللاجئين السوريين المقي...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — In 2012, Egypt's president issued an extraordinary decision giving Syrians access to public schooling in Egypt and facilitating registration. Under the new conditions, students were able to enroll using only their passports and a copy of their transcripts from Syria. The process,...

It was 8pm. Silence reigned in our area of Nasr City outside Cairo when a 50-something woman speaking a non-Egyptian dialect broke the silence and knocked on our door. “I need a job,” she said. The fair-skinned, black-clad, heavily wrinkled woman turned out to be a Syrian refugee seeking assistan...

NAPLES - England's Chelsea Football Club has contributed to humanitarian organisation Plan International to aid Syrian child refugees in Alexandria, Egypt, donating enough to provide school materials for 400 children, as well as access to courses to make up for time missed in school and psychologica...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — On the occasion of World Refugee Day June 20, six talented Syrian artists participated in an exhibition that was organized by the United Nations refugee agency field office in Alexandria with the cooperation of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which hosted the event.Aseer Al Madaien,...

In an attempt to save their lives, millions of Syrians left their bombarded homes behind. Ever since the start of the civil war in Syria five years ago, the lives of Syrian refugees have been a chain of suffering and misery. Those who came to Egypt were some of the luckiest, as the main challenges ....

The Syria crisis has been going on for seven years. 5.3 million people are displaced beyond Syria’s borders. Another seven million internally displaced people (IDPs) are displaced [inside Syria]. There is unprecedented destruction - over 500,000 people killed, towns decimated. More than 200 armed gr...

Amir Awad is no stranger to adversity. He entered his first wrestling tournament in his native Syria aged 11, and went on to grapple and fight his way to the top of his sport, eventually becoming a Syrian, Arab and pan-Asian champion. After the outbreak of Syria’s conflict in 2011, however, he face...

A lenient visa system and a sympathetic populist president have seen Syrian refugee numbers swell in Egypt as Syria’s neighbours reach their capacity. The main destinations for Syrian refugees are the bordering countries of Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. In the last three months alone the number o...