Events
Online launch: Mobilising for rights in the MENA region
How can visual storytelling be used as a fieldwork method, or as a tool for knowledge sharing? The REF-ARAB project and PRIO invite to a breakfast seminar on the potentials and challenges of using visual storytelling in academic research.
Visual Storytelling: At the Interface Between Research and Art
How can visual storytelling be used as a fieldwork method, or as a tool for knowledge sharing? The REF-ARAB project and PRIO invite to a breakfast seminar on the potentials and challenges of using visual storytelling in academic research.
Graphic Storytelling in Activism and Exile
How do we best tell stories about exile and activism through comics? Join us for an evening focused on the art of comic-making, exile and activism.
Saudi Arabia's Forgotten Refugee Camps
Welcome to an event on Saudi Arabia's role in the international refugee regime, with a focus on the untold stories about the refugee camps in Rafha and al-Arthawiya.
International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law: A Synthesis of Revelation and Reason in Saudi Arabia's Legal Regime
Welcome to a seminar organized by the REF-ARAB project and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) on international human rights law and Islamic Law.
Mobilization for Migrants’ Rights: Lessons from Lebanon and Beyond
The REF-ARAB Project at the University of Oslo and the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs at the American University of Beirut are organizing a workshop on initiatives to support the rights of refugees and other migrants.
Release Event: Cardboard Camp - Stories of Sudanese Refugees in Lebanon
On May 21, 2023, the REF-ARAB project cordially invites you to the release event of a graphic novel focusing on the situation of Sudanese refugees in Lebanon.
International Refugee Law and Policy in Lebanon: Past, Present and Potentials
The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy & International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut and the REF-ARAB project at the University of Oslo cordially invite you t a public panel discussion on: “International Refugee Law and Policy in Lebanon: Past, Present and Potentials.”
The Right to Asylum in International Refugee Law and Islamic Law: Theory and Practice
What are the similarities and differences between Islamic law and International Refugee Law and how is the concept of asylum adopted in practice?
The REF-ARAB project at the University of Oslo and the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS) are pleased to invite you to a virtual panel discussion on the right to asylum in International Refugee Law and Islamic Law.
Refugee Protection and Digital Legal Aid in the Middle East
This two-part online workshop, organised by REF-ARAB postdoctoral researcher Mirjam Abigail Twigt and the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian studies, considers how humanitarian technology-use can interact with refugee protection, specifically in the Middle East. The workshop specifically questions if and how digital legal aid practices could constructively contribute to refugee rights and rights of refugees.
Assisting and Protecting Refugees in Europe and the Middle East - politics, law and humanitarian practices
What are the current trends when it comes to assisting and protecting refugees and asylum-seekers in Europe and in the Middle East? How do political decisions regarding refugees taken in one region affect assistance and protection in other regions? Together with PRIO and the Norwegian Centre for Humanitarian Studies, we organized this one day event on September 19, 2019.