Omer Karasapan

FILE PHOTO: A Syrian refugee woman stands outside a tent at a camp in Bar Elias, in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon January 13, 2020. Picture taken January 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir/File Photo

Sharing the burden of the global refugee crisis

Monday, January 27, 2020

Palestinian-Syrian refugee Ahmed, 27, his future wife Hanin, 18, and Hanin's mother Turki visit a pastry shop the day before their engagement party in Kilis, Turkey, March 10, 2017. Ahmed's and Hanin's journey started amid Syria's conflict and brought the two Palestinians from their homes in Damascus' suburbs to Turkey. They were introduced in the winter of 2017. As they lived in different cities, they texted for months before Ahmed took a 20-hour bus trip from Izmir to the border town of Kilis to meet her, which led to their engagement. REUTERS/Ekaterina Anchevskaya SEARCH "SYRIA MIGRANTS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1460F5A5A0

Turkey’s Syrian refugees—the welcome fades

Monday, November 25, 2019

Syrian refugee Omayma al Hushan, 14, who launched an initiative against child marriage among Syrian refugees, speaks to her friends about her initiative at a school in Al Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, April 21, 2016. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed - GF10000397998

Forced displacement and child marriage: A growing challenge in MENA

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Containers are seen at a port terminal in Bizerte, Tunisia, March 27, 2018. Picture taken March 27, 2018. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC1740C51860

MENA’s economic integration in an era of fragmentation

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

Migrants are seen as they are rescued by Libyan coast guards in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, January 15, 2018. Picture taken January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara - RC18027683D0

The continuing tragedy of migrants in Libya

Monday, March 18, 2019

An injured man, who was among the people evacuated on Monday from the two Syrian besieged Shi'ite towns of al-Foua and Kefraya, receives treatment at a hospital in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon December 29, 2015. A U.N. operation to evacuate around 450 Syrian fighters and their families from two besieged Syrian areas was completed on Monday with the arrival of planes carrying them to Beirut and Hatay airport in Turkey, U.N. and airport sources said. REUTERS/Aziz Taher - GF10000277887

The challenges in providing health care to Syrian refugees

Thursday, November 15, 2018

A Syrian refugee teacher distributes books to her refugee students in their classroom at Fatih Sultan Mehmet School in Karapurcek district of Ankara, Turkey, September 28, 2015. Out of 640,000 Syrian children in Turkey, 400,000 are not at school, a Turkish official told Reuters on Friday, warning that those who miss out are likely to be exploited by "gangs and criminals". Educating the children among more than 2.2 million Syrian refugees in Turkey - most of whom live outside purpose-built camps - is seen as a critical part of the humanitarian response to the four-and-a-half-year-old conflict. Picture taken September 28, 2015. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - GF10000230197

Syrian refugees and the schooling challenge

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

A general view of the traffic on a crowded road in Cairo October 26, 2010. Smog-ridden Cairo's gridlock shows investment in roads, railways and ports is failing to keep pace with economic growth, menacing public health and threatening economic asphyxiation. Around 12,000 deaths occur every year in Egypt because of road accidents, the highest rate in the world per head of population bar Eritrea and the Cook Islands, according to the World Health Organization's most recent report in 2009. The capital's congested roads come to a standstill daily as infrastructure fails to support population growth of 2 percent a year and as thousands of new cars hit the streets every year. Picture taken October 26, 2010. To match Feature EGYPT-BUSINESS/ REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El-Ghany (EGYPT - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY TRANSPORT) - GM1E71R08F001

Egypt’s population: Boom then bust?

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Civilians evacuated from the town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta arrive at Wafideen camp in Damascus, Syria March 13, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki - RC12FFC5EF20

Preventing endless wars in Syria

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Migrants rest after they were rescued by the Libyan Coast Guard, at a naval post in the coastal town of Tajoura, east of Tripoli, Libya, May 23, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny - RC1482444700

The slave trade in Libya: What can development actors do?

Omer Karasapan and Sajjad Shah

Thursday, January 25, 2018