Trauma

Tetris: An unexpected tool against intrusive trauma memories

Trauma memories have a way of resurfacing in the mind unexpectedly, causing people to relive certain moments of the traumatic experience. But what if there was a way to disrupt the flashbacks, and all you had to do was play a game?

The ‘othering’ of Muslims is triggering mental health issues in India

Being increasingly targeted because of their religious identity has begun to exact a mental toll on many Indian Muslims.

A year later, justice and accountability elude victims of ‘Operation Luxor’

It is vital that the world understands the catalogue of injustices and deception that the Austrian state used — and continues to use — to pressure Muslims.

A silent mental health crisis plagues Afghans at home and abroad

Decades of conflict, displacement, poverty and unemployment have taken a huge toll on Afghans, and left a health system ill-equipped to provide them with mental healthcare.

How a VR project reconnects Indo-Pak partition survivors with their homes

Project Dastaan uses digital experiences to create a virtual homecoming for the survivors of the Subcontinent's bloody partition in 1947.

'This place is a horror show’: A foreigner’s account of occupied Palestine

“Nothing could have adequately prepared me for what I encountered on the ground: Israeli apartheid.”

A weaponless warzone: Lebanon is already past the brink of collapse

While headlines around the world have kept warning that Lebanon is ‘on the brink of’ collapse for over a year now, most Lebanese will tell you that their state has already collapsed.

Yazidi children freed from Daesh grapple with mental trauma

Branding the Yazidis as heretics, Daesh slaughtered thousands of men, abducted women and girls and forced boys to fight on its behalf. A new report shows that nearly 2,000 Yazidi children are still without the care they need.

The human cost of the Syrian war

The war in Syria, now in its eighth year, has seen children paying the heaviest price. At least 33 have been killed since June this year, compared to 31 children during the entirety of 2018.

Boko Haram victims fight psychological trauma

The survivors of rape and torture in Nigeria have begun to meet counsellors, defying local perceptions and rituals, but the stories are countless and the listening ears are very few.

Music brings solace to some refugees in Lebanon

Music helps a group of Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Lebanon to recover from war trauma.

Broken unions

Life fleeing from the war in Syria and living in exile in Turkey takes a toll on the marital ties of refugees. While divorces are on rise, many women are stepping up their fight for greater independence.