Further reading on refugees

We study The Beekeeper of Aleppo (2019) by Christy Lefteri on 26 December 2022. Live online lecture and seminar with Trudi Tate. All income goes to refugee charities.

This year we are supporting:

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group
Chamomile Housing Project, Athens

Update: We raised £376 to be shared between the two charities. Very many thanks to everyone who attended.

Other refugee support groups

Freedom from Torture, London.
Refugee Walk and Refugee Tales. Campaign against indefinite detention.
Refugee Council
Together in the UK
Refugees at Home
Safe Passage. Helps unaccompanied child refugees and lobbies for safe routes for refugees.
Blog by Becky Taylor about refugees in Britain.

On Ryad Alsous

Guardian article on Ryad Alsous, 14 Dec. 2021.
UNHCR news report about Ryad Alsous, Professor of Agriculture, Syrian refugee, and beekeeper in Yorkshire.
Film interview with Ryad Alsous, Huffington Post.
ITV news report, March 2021.

Further reading

David Herd and Anna Pincus, eds., Refugee Tales, vols. II, III, IV (2017, 2019, 2021)|
Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow (YA novel about Syrian war. Bloomsbury, 2022)
Christy Lefteri, article on intergenerational trauma, Guardian, 12 May 2019.
Christy Lefteri, interview with Aspen Institute, Feb. 2020
Dina Nayeri, The Ungrateful Refugee (Canongate, 2019)
Viet Nguyen, The Refugees (stories, Corsair 2017). Reviewed by Trudi Tate, Refugee History, 2017.
Lyndsey Stonebridge, Placeless People: Writing, Rights, and Refugees (Oxford UP, 2018)
Becky Taylor, Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain: A History (Cambridge UP, 2021)