
UK-based and angry about #MuslimBan? Here’s 5 things to do.
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Jan 30, 2017
UK people. Are you angry about Trump’s attempts to deport people from the US? Did you perhaps go to the Women’s March, or sign that oddly-worded petition about cancelling Trump’s visit? Well, we’ve got more work to do (join a protest against the #MuslimBan this week), and more importantly, more work to do at home. Muslim lives, the...

Green scapegoating of immigrants is an intellectual deceit of the worst kind
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Oct 29, 2014
Guest post by Alex Randall I’ve spent the past year gathering testimonies from people who have moved due to the impacts of climate change. These stories reveal there is something deeply wrong with the way some green groups talk about migration. It has become a mantra among green groups that climate change will create...
Living in Palestinian Yarmouk
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Sep 13, 2009
We moved to Yarmouk Camp the other week. The first month in Damascus, I lived in an ancient house in the middle of the Old City in Damascus, half a block from the enormous Omayed Mosque. Sitting on our roof terrace at dusk, I blogged while watching the bats swoop and dive around the Bride’s...