May 14, 2021

Palestinian born in Syria

Hello everyone ! I am Sarra, member of Project’s Voice, and it with great pleasure that I welcome you all on this second episode of the Refugees Radio Maastricht ! On today’s episode our guest is Safwan Abdulhamid, former Humanitarian […]
May 10, 2021

What is happening in Tigray?

Tigray is a state in northern Ethiopia, led by the Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF). Before the election of Prime Minister Abiy in 2018, the TPLF had been in power of the country’s governing coalition[1]. Since the elections, tension between […]
April 29, 2021

I am Amjad Kayali

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Refugees Radio Maastricht , a new initiative from Refugee Project Maastricht! For those of you that don’t know, RPM creates a community of care by building bridges between people of different backgrounds in order to […]
January 29, 2021

Migration and mourning: a new path to understanding in Youssouf Amine Elalamy Prize-winning novel What a Lovely War

Published in 2019, What a Lovely War [C’est beau, la guerre] is the grand champion of the Orange Book Prize in Africa, 2020. Nominated by the Senegalese committee, the author is Youssouf Amine Elalamy, a Moroccan author also known as YAE. In […]
December 14, 2020

Asylum seekers’ trajectories: Official procedure in the Netherlands

By Merve Ozer, RPM Volunteer Project Voice This article aims at providing information about the asylum procedure in the Netherlands. Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to […]
December 2, 2020

Journey to Refuge- RPM Volunteers in Training

By Áine Macdonald, RPM volunteer Project Voice  On Thursday 12th November, Refugee Project Maastricht hosted an interactive talk for all our volunteers about the journey that refugees must undergo to get to the Netherlands.  The volunteers had an opportunity to speak […]