'Everyone in Gaza is exhausted' | First Person
Our First Person narratives dig into the humanity of humanitarian challenges. In this episode, Mahmoud Shalabi describes the difficult reality of life in his home, Beit Lahia. When the Israeli militar...
8 Aug 202413min
Water 'stress' affects every aspect of life in Warawa, Nigeria | First Person
Our First Person narratives aim to dig into the humanity of humanitarian challenges. In this episode, Yusuf Sa'adu, a shopkeeper in Warawa in Nigeria's Kano state, points out that "whoever has abundan...
1 Aug 20247min
Peace in Gaza | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)
*This episode was originally published on November 9, 2023. Palestinian peace activist Nivine Sandouka discusses the difficult way forward for building trust between Israelis and Palestinians. Hosted ...
25 Jul 202423min
A Syrian reminder: The ones you once saw suffering, still are | First Person
Iyad Agha, a Syrian now living in Germany, has been working on his country's humanitarian crisis for nearly a decade. The United Nations itself recently said that "Syria is in danger of being forgotte...
18 Jul 202413min
The preventable trauma of humanitarians | What's Unsaid (REPLAY)
*This episode was originally published on September 27, 2023. Aid worker and psychologist Imogen Wall tells host Ali Latifi that the way humanitarian organisations are run, can do as much damage to a...
11 Jul 202430min
The stories humanitarians tell (and why they need to change) | Rethinking Humanitarianism
When crises hit, a host of questions arise, among them: Who needs humanitarian aid? How much? Who delivers it? And who has the power to make all of those decisions? How aid agencies and the media choo...
4 Jul 20241h
Who can the Rohingya rely on? | What's Unsaid
Exiled from a country plagued by decades of civil war, allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing, and limits on basic democratic rights, Maung Zarni, an academic, human rights activist, and Nobel P...
27 Jun 202425min
Faith as a way forward | What's Unsaid
Viewed from Western aid capitals, the international humanitarian system is overwhelmingly secular. But for much of the rest of the world, people's lived realities are very different. As Amjad Mohamed ...
20 Jun 202424min
