Resources
PHOTOGRAPHY
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Ek Khaale - Once Upon a Time (Greg Constantine, January 2024)
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I Feel No Peace: Rohingya Fleeing Over Seas and Rivers (Kaamil Ahmed, Hurst Publishers, 2023)
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The Rohingya Photographers: Lens for Hope (Gaspar Canela, October, 2022)
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Meet the Rohingya photographers in social media (Gaspar Canela, October, 2022)
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Rohingya boy learns language of photography (UNHCR. Kristy Siegfried and Amos Halder, August 2022)
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Young Rohingya photographers capture life in world’s largest refugee camp (NBC News, July 2022)
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Snaps of life in the world’s biggest refugee camp (Sian McAllister. Visual Rebellion Myanmar, 2022)
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‘Through our own eyes’: Rohingya refugees stage photography show (Ali MC. Al-Jazeera, June 2022)
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Rohingya refugees are using photography to tell their own stories (Lacuna Magazine, June 2020)
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Rohingyatographer: The photography magazine from the world’s largest refugee camp (Migrant Voice)
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Rohingyatographer Magazine: Behind the Zine with Sahat Zia Hero (Blurb, June 2022)
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Rohingya Photo Competition (curated by Shafiur Rahman)
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The two-year Rohingya crisis in three timelapse satellite GIFs (The New Humanitarian, August 2019)
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No Place on Earth (Patrick Brown. Panos/PhotoEvidence, 2019)
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Remains from the ahes (Ahmer Khan. Amnesty International, February 2019)
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From independence to now: a photographic timeline of Rohingya erasure (Kaami Ahmed. Medium. December 2019)
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See the refugee babies born with nowhere to call home (Turjoy Chowdury. NatGeo, December 2018)
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Rohingya refugees fish in troubled waters (Clodagh Kilcoyne. The Guardian, June 2018)
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Wearing tradition – Thanaka paste in a Rohingya camp (Clodagh Kilcoyne. Reuters, April 2018)
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‘The most important thing I have’: Rohingya refugees on what they most value (Brian Sokol. The Guardian, March 2018)
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Letters from Arakan (Adib Chowdhury. R&K Insider. Jan. 2018)
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A wedding provides an occasion for hope in a Rohingya refugee camp (Marko Djurica. Reuters, December 2017)
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In Rohingya refugee camp, a wedding is celebrated (Damir Sagolj. Reuters, December 2017)
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Path of Persecution (William Daniels. NatGeo, November 2017)
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Desperate Journey (Kevin Frayer. Time Magazine, October 2017)
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Without a Home, and without Hope (William Daniels. NatGeo, August 2017)
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This is what despair looks like (Szymon Barylsky, Politico. April 2018)
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Documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis (Kevin Frayer. The Guardian, October 2017)
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A Wedding and a Funeral (Nicole Sganga. New York Times, June 2014)
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From Myanmar to Nowhere (Saiful Huq Omi. R&K Insider, November 2012)
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Exiled to Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingyas (Greg Constantine. 2012)
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IDENTITY
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Rohingya diaspora online: Mapping the spaces of visibility, resistance and transnational identity on social media (Abdul Aziz, Queensland University of Technology, 2022)
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The Rohingya Refugee Taking on Meta's Bias Algorithm (Amnesty International, September 2022)
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‘Feeling like prisoners’: The plight of Rohingya refugees today (Aljazeera, August 2022)
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7 stories following the journey of the Rohingya refugees (Bella Segal, Lacuna Magazine, May 2022)
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Unkind Cut. How a media fixation on sexual violence and exploitation harmed the Rohingya (Vidya Krishnan. The Caravan, February 2020)
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As a Rohingya refugee, I see a renaissance of my people’s culture in the Bangladesh camps (Mayyu Ali. The Independent, February 2020)
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Once Home, Now a Jungle (Allison Merkel. The Inmmigrant Story, September 2019)
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Analysis: Using the Term ‘Rohingya’ (The Irrawaddy, Aug. 2019)
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Start-up: The Rohingya entrepreneurs seeking out a living in refugee camps (New Humanitarian, April 2019)
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Cause of Cultural Protection: Programming for cultural education and revitalization programmes for stateless Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh; A short account of Rohingya culture (Mostafa Kamal, Zafari Nurul. SSRN, April 2019)
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Dignity and the displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh (Kerrie Holloway & Lilianne Fan . HPG, August 2018)
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Boundaries in Shaping the Rohingya Identity and the Shifting Context of Borderland Politics (Kazi Fahmida Farzana. University Utara Malaysia, 2015)
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The Rohingyas. A short account of their history and culture (Abdul Karim. Arakan Historical Society, Chittangong, 2000)
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The etymology of Arakan, Rohingya and Rakhine (Md Ashraf Alam. Bangladesh Institute of Arakan Studies, Chittagong, 2000)
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Muslims in Arakan. A Brief Study of the Rohingya, a Muslim Racial Group of Arab Descent in Arakan. The Rohingya Poet, Alawal (Ba Tha Buthidaung. Islamic Review, Woking, 1965)
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HISTORY
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A visual history of the Rohingya refugee crisis (MSF, 2022)
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A chronology of key events in Burma’s history with an emphasis on the Rohingya (Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2020)
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“My heart cries”: For one Rohingya refugee, a dream of home that may never be fulfilled (Matthew Wells. Vox, Sep. 2019)
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The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya (Michael W. Charney. SOAS, 2019)
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“Tools of Genocide” National Verification Cards and the Denial of Citizenship of Rohingya in Myanmar. Fortify Rights (Sep 2019)
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Top Rohingya-hosting countries (Anadolu Agency, August 2019)
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Registration gives many Rohingya refugees identification for the first time (UNHCR, May 2019)
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Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Ethno-Religious Conflict in South EastAsia: From Burma to Bangladesh and Back (Nergis Canefe. Refugee Watch 51 & 52, December 2018)
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Rohingyas: The Emergence of a Stateless Population (Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury. Refugee Watch 51 & 52, Dec. 2018)
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Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar (Jacques Leider. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2018)
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Rohingya Ethnic Muslim Minority and the 1982 Citizenship Law in Burma (Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, November 2017)
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They tried to kill us all. Atrocity Crimes against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. Fortify Rights and US Holocaust Memorial Museum (November 2017)
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Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees: Contested Identity and Belonging (Kazi Fahmida Farzana. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
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Notes on a series of cultural and historical articles about Arakan written between 1959 and 1966 by Mohammed A Tahir Ba Tha of Buthidaung (Derek Tonkin. 2017)
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Timeline: Being Rohingya in Myanmar, from 1784 to Now (The Wire, September 2017)
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Muslims in Arakan (Michael W. Charney. The Stateless, Oct. 2016)
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A Lost Population? East India Company and Arkanese ‘Refugees’ in Chittagong (Anandaroop Sen. Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration 46, 2015)
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A Short History of Rohingya and Kamans of Burma (M.A Tahir Ba Tha. Kaladan News, September 2007)
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A History of Arakan (Past & Present) (Md. Yunus. Chittagong University, 1994)
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The Coming of Islam to Arakan (Ba Tha Buthidaung. The Guardian Magazine, 1961)
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MEDIA
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SBS Rohingya (Australia)
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BIBLIOGRAPHIES
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Bibliography of Burma Studies (Tea Circle, Oxford)
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Rohingya Resource Guide (Canada Museum of Human Rights)
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Rohingya Research Bibliography (Keith A. Leitich. 2017)
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Burma (Myanmar) since the 1988 Uprising: A Select Bibliography (Andrew Selth. Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, 2018)
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The Bibliography of Burma (Myanmar) Research: The Secondary Literature (Michael Charney. SOAS, London, 2004)
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EXHIBITIONS
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​Jasbaa: The Art of Rohingya Refugee Resistance (Waterloo Region Museum, Canada, September 2023)
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Picturing the Rohingya Genocide (Rohingya Centre of Canada, August 2023)
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Life through Rohingya Eyes (Liberation War Museum, Dhaka, June 2023)
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Burma’s Path to Genocide (Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington. July 2020
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The Unwanted: The Rohingya (War Photo Limited, Drunovnik, Croatia. July 2020)
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Together: Voices without Borders (Minim Photo Gallery, Taipei. June 2020)
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In Search of the Future (Edge Gallery, Dhaka. February 2020)
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Wandering: A Rohingya Story (Quebec National Museum of Arts. January 2020)
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Experience the world’s largest refugee camp (Red Cross, Westfield Mall, Stratford. August 2019)
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Time to Act: Rohingya Voices (Canadian Museum for Human Rights. June 2019)
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We are not afraid: We want our stories told (Nobel Women’s Initiative. March 2019)
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Heaven is Elsewhere (Shadhin Kamruzzaman. Dhaka Art Summit, 2017)
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IDP Story Cloth. The Rohingya story in Thailand (Jakkal Siributr. March 2017)
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FILMS
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Wandering without return (Olivier Higgins & Mélanie Carrier. 88mins, 2020)
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Quilt of Memory and Hope: Stories of Rohingya Women Survivors (AJAR. 7mins, 2019)
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Radio Rohingya (Clément Gargoullaud. Al Jazeera. 25mins, 2018)
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Kraben Rahu / Manta Rayu (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng. 115mins, 2018)
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Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide (Gianna Toboni. VICE/HBO. 125mins, May 2018)
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I Am Rohingya: A Genocide in Four Acts (Yusuf Zine & Kevin Young. 84mins, 2018)
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Myanmar Killing Fields. A special investigation into the mass exodus of Rohingya (Patrick Wells.. Frontline/SBS. 50mins, 2018)
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Four Days With a Rohingya Family in Exile (Ben C. Solomon. New York Times. 13mins, 2017)
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Exiled To Nowhere-Burma’s Rohingya (Greg Constantine. 7mins, 2017)
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Journey into Hell (Mark Davis. Four Corners ABC. 45mins, 2015)
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Rohingya er Salasel (Mr Saw Myint. UNHCR. 10-episode series. 95mins, 2011)
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Promise episodes 1 & 2 (Jewel Kabir. UNHCR. 15mins, 2010)
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United Nations Delegation Visits Burmese refugee camp In Bangladesh (Reuters. 1min, 40secs, 1978)
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ARTS & CULTURE
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A Mandolin in Exile (Rafiqul Anowar Russell. Liberation War Museum. 57mins, 2020)
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The Unexpected Friend: A Rohingya Children’s Story (Save the Children, November 2019)
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Music in Exile (Pulitzer Centre, 2019)
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Rwdan Cookbook. Recipes and Stories from our kitchen to yours (RWDN, 2019)
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In Myanmar, underground poetry nights build bridges between Rohingya and Burmese writers (Victoria Milko. PRI, Oct. 2019)
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Rohingya poet turn words into art of resistance (Natalie Brinham. Anadolu Agency, August 2019)
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First, they erased our name. A Rohingya speaks (Sophie Habiburahman & Ansel. Sribe, August 2019)
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Rohingya Writing as Activism: A Conversation with Mayyu Ali (World Literature Today, January 2019)
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In exile in Bangladesh, a bittersweet revival of Rohingya Culture (Poppy McPherson. Reuters, May 2019)
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Rohingya women defy threats in refugee camps to rebuild lives one stitch at a time (Naidul Karim, Reuters, August 2019)
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Illustrations by Rohingya Children Depict Violence No Child Should Ever Have to Face (Global Citizen, August 2018)
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Rohingya Medieval Poetry (Atindrigo Chakraborty. Counter Currents, June 2018)
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Sketching in a Rohingya Refugee camp in Bangladesh (Dan Peterson. Urban Sketchers, May 2018)
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Rohingya “tarana” music by Hamid, a refugee from Myanmar in Canada (Music in Exile, May 2018)
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Art and the Rohingya of Kathmandu (Kurchi Dasgupta. Katmandu Post, September 2017)
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Rohingya women voice their rights through theater (Asylum Access, November 2017)
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Rohingya language: origin, structure and another component (Mohammad Ayaj Uddin. Jahangirnagar University, 2016)
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Muslim poets in the Court of Medieval Arakan (Aman Ullah. The Stateless, 2016)
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A comparative vocabulary of some of the languages spoken in the Burma empire (Francis Buchanan. SOAS, 2003)
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Roewengya Fine Arts (Ba Tha Buthidaung. The Guardian Magazine, 1961)
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Roewengyas in Arakan (Ba Tha Buthidaung, The Guardian Magazine, 1960)
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Rohingya-Burmese-Bangla-English Glossary (Translators without Borders)
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RECOMMENDED READING
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A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma (David Eimer. Bloomsbury, 2019)
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How the media contributed to the migrant crisis (The Guardian, August 2019)
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Breathing through the medium: representations of refugees in contemporary art (Dandelion Journal, September 2018)
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Reporting on Refugees: Guidance by and for journalists (UNHCR, 2018)
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The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives (Viet Thanh Nguyen. Abrams Press, 2018)
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The Displaced in Media Recipe Book (European Cultural Foundation, 2018)
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Essays from the Edge of Humanitarian Innovation (UNHCR, 2017)
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Refugee art: a way to face up to ugly truths – and possibly change minds (Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore. The Guardian, 2016)
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The arts in refugee camps: ten good reasons (Forced Migration Review, July 2013)
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