Hassan Akkad is a Syrian refugee, filmmaker, and refugee rights activist living in the UK. He was part of the team that made Exodus: Our Journey to Europe which won the BAFTA for Best Factual Series or Strand in 2015. Hassan worked in TV production and Choose Love, a refugee...

These past weeks have brought deep heartbreak. We’ve watched people fall from planes in efforts to flee and listened to the pleas of the Afghan citizens who now fear for their lives under Taliban rule. In Haiti, we’ve tried to comprehend the magnitude of destruction and loss of life, as...

The path that refugees take, the moment they leave their destroyed homes, to wherever their feet lead them, is long and tiring. And even though people around the world know that the rocky roads or dangerous boat rides that the refugees take are dangerous, they do not understand the pain...

Karam Storyteller Nour Al Ghraowi interviews photojournalist Bassam Khabieh as he talks about his book Witnesses to War, and the importance of documenting the children during the conflict in Syria. The book tells the story of the children in Ghouta through a series of images. Purchase his book Witnesses to War on the Karam store....

From lockdown isolation to economic strife and fear of infection, the past year has been difficult for people across the globe. No doubt you were inspired to donate and ease the burden for someone else. Think back to the causes you elected to donate to. Did you support organizations providing...

As Karam Scholars, the students are given the opportunity to dream big and accomplish things they did not have the means to before. Scholars are determined to reach their goals, and in most cases, they do. Yousef Yousef, a 21-year-old scholar, took the determination and the support from those around...

This year has been marked by a series of humanitarian crises and tragedies: the 10-year anniversary of the Syrian Revolution, ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, turmoil in Venezuela, famine in Yemen, and more. However, no issue seemed to grip the globe more than the recent conflict between Israel and...

“There wasn’t a time when I wasn’t a refugee,” Husam said. To many Syrian children, home is unknown. Their parents left Syria either when they were infants or still growing in their mother’s wombs. When asked “where do you belong?” they stare into nothingness, searching for an answer in all...

Understanding the importance of mental health is the first step towards bettering ourselves and our ways of living. Many of us have been struggling with social anxiety and isolation following the switch from in-person to a virtual work environment. To many, this transition has been beneficial in the long term,...

An iftar meal set for one, your roommates had already had their dinner. Your mother on the other side of the world is getting ready to get up for Suhoor as you are close to breaking your fast. The exhaustion of fasting all day while working has worn you off....

It has been over a year since the COVID-19 Pandemic began, and the US and Europe are seeing cases decrease, restrictions ease, and vaccination rates on the rise. It’s clear that across the globe, many have the privilege of comfortable settling into a new normal as they inch ever closer...

Ramadan has a lot of traditions, some that are alive until this day, others have changed since the Syrian conflict. One big part of Ramadan growing up is the Mesaharati or “The dawn caller of Ramadan.” The word Mesaharati comes from Suhoor; the meal Muslims eat before dawn and before...

Reading may seem like an innocuous act. We do it as children pouring over rhymes and storylines, as students trudging through the latest assignment, and as adults in our morning commutes, while squinting at the fine print, or scanning ingredient lists. However, in a world where authoritarian governments routinely carry...

Last week, we watched in horror along with the rest of the nation as Texas and other states were hit with a devastating winter storm. As temperatures dipped well below zero, over four million were left without power and 14 million without access to clean, running water. While power is...