See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It took Hagos Hadgu 11 traumatic months to travel from Eritrea to his ...

SALLUM, Egypt, June 26 (UNHCR) - Around 9 a.m. Maha* went to the clinic in Sallum refugee camp just inside Egypt's border with Libya and doused herself with gasoline; only quick intervention by clinic ...

RIPANJ, Serbia, January 12 (UNHCR) - Miljo Miljic and his family live in a spartan apartment in the Serbian village of Ripanj. There are no family photos, no paintings, no book collection, no ...

Many of these forgotten refugees were members of ancient Jewish communities that predated Christianity. More than a few were wealthy, powerful and successful. Nearly all of them left their homes with ...

The Afars, a tightly knit Muslim minority in one of the most inhospitable corners of Africa, are determined to keep their home and the culture that sustains them. The Assayita refugee camp ...

The flower was intricately drawn, with each pattern nesting delicately inside another. Pink and white petals sprouted from a blue stem. It stretched across the back of the lined paper next to a ...

A teenager in miniskirts when the Iranian Revolution broke out in 1979, Jacqueline Saper remembers the chaos and the overwhelming surge of anti-Semitism. “Jews felt threatened. Anyone who could were ...

Victor Balassiano keeps the record books for the last functional synagogue in Alexandria, Egypt. At the age of 62, he is the youngest Jew in a city that once had a Jewish population of 40,000. Today, ...

The documentary explores the history, culture, and forced exodus of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities in the second half of the 20th century. Using extensive testimony of refugees ...