All In: From Refugee Camp to Poker Champ

Citizens of nowhere: from refugee camp t

📁 Citizens of nowhere: from refugee camp to Canadian campus

✍ Goodwin, Debi 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Doubleday Canada 🌐 English

An inspiring story of courage, adaptation and determinaton ' a year in the life of 11 refugee students entering universities across Canada. "Most journalists have stories they never forget. This is mine." When Debi Goodwin travelled to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in 2007 to shoot a documentary on young

From Shelters to Dwellings: The Zaatari

📁 From Shelters to Dwellings: The Zaatari Refugee Camp

✍ Ayham Dalal 📂 Library 📅 2022 🏛 transcript Verlag 🌐 English

<p>The importance of a »dwelling« is often taken for granted - yet it is a human necessity. But how can a shelter within a refugee camp ever become a dwelling? Ayham Dalal investigates this question by bringing »dwelling« to the centre of refugee camps' studies. He argues that the transformation fro

Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from

📁 Design to Live: Everyday Inventions from a Refugee Camp

✍ Azra Aksamija, Raafat Majzoub, Melina Philippou 📂 Library 📅 2021 🏛 MIT Press 🌐 English

The power of design to create a life worth living even in a refugee camp: designs, inventions, and artworks from the Azraq Refugee Camp in Jordan. This book shows how, even in the most difficult conditions--forced displacement, trauma, and struggle--design can help create a life worth living. Des

Refugees in Our Own Land : Chronicles fr

📁 Refugees in Our Own Land : Chronicles from a Palestinian Refugee Camp in Bethlehem

✍ Muna Hamzeh 📂 Library 📅 2001 🌐 English

"For four days, I haven't been able to write. The headaches, the nausea, the pain in my eyes finally caught up with me ... I couldn't write, just as I couldn't keep any food down, or escape the persistent nightmares whenever I tried to sleep. I've been dreaming of friends getting injured, of blood,

Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a

📁 Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America

✍ Jamal Krayem Kanj 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Garnet Publishing Ltd 🌐 English

The making of a refugee - Life in the camp - Revolution and political evolution - Israeli military raids - Camp economy - Lebanese civil war - Journey into a new life - A new American home and the return to Palestine - The destruction of Nahr el Bared camp: the unrecorded story.

Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a

📁 Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America

✍ Jamal Krayem Kanj 📂 Library 📅 2010 🏛 Garnet Publishing Ltd 🌐 English

The making of a refugee - Life in the camp - Revolution and political evolution - Israeli military raids - Camp economy - Lebanese civil war - Journey into a new life - A new American home and the return to Palestine - The destruction of Nahr el Bared camp: the unrecorded story.