At the beginning of August this year, an explosion in the port of Beirut shook Lebanon, a country already on its knees. Here, Reem Haddad, daughter of our friend and partner Sylvia from the Joint Christian Committee (JCC), tells us how the youth of the camps have worked together in providing an extraordinary response to the disaster.

Our friend and partner, Sister Bridget Tighe, is General Director of Caritas Jerusalem. In the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic and as the possibility of the annexation of parts of the Occupied Palestinian Territories draws closer, she sent us these reflections.

Marc Falconer is a member of Embrace the Middle East’s Scottish Volunteer Hub and a student in Divinity at the University of Aberdeen. He currently lives in Jerusalem, and here shares his perspective on the Covid-19 outbreak and its impact upon our friends and partners in the region.

There will be countless lessons that we take away from this time of isolation brought about by Corona Virus – many positive, as well as some less so.