Bio
Alicia Medina
Alicia Medina is a Spanish journalist based in Beirut. Her work has been published in international media outlets and she holds a master’s degree in Journalism, Media and Globalisation from the Erasmus Mundus program.
Latest Articles
Erdoğan hints at normalization with Assad: Unpacking Turkey’s U-turn
With Turkey’s 2023 elections in sight and a surge in anti-refugee rhetoric shaping voter preferences, Erdoğan hints at possible reconciliation with Damascus. How could this apparent 180-degree policy shift play out in Syria?
Syrians in exile respond to travel vloggers touring Syria: ‘They are just some kids playing in the blood of Syrians’
Refugees who cannot return to Syria react to travel vloggers who claim to be apolitical and portray Syria as safe.
Beyond bakery queues, a spike in scapegoating Syrian refugees in Lebanon
In cash-strapped Lebanon, discrimination against Syrians in bakery queues during recent weeks of bread shortages was the latest symptom of growing anti-refugee rhetoric and scapegoating.
From Damascus to Valencia: Syrians put down roots in Spain
A pilot program in the Spanish region of Valencia has resettled five Syrian refugee families from Lebanon. They are among a comparatively small number of Syrians to settle in Spain.
British government crisis and legal challenges leave UK-Rwanda deportation deal on standby until September
Half of the 130 asylum seekers—among them more than a dozen Syrian nationals—due to be deported from the UK to Rwanda have been released on bail, while the other half are still detained.
An international mechanism to reveal the fate of Syria’s missing: From words to action?
The UN Secretary General and OHCHR will soon release a feasibility study on the creation of a unified, international mechanism to search for Syria’s hundreds of thousands of missing and forcibly disappeared people—something family members and survivors have spent years fighting for.
Twice displaced: Palestinian refugees from Syria live and remember in Lebanon’s Rashidieh camp
Rashidieh camp in southern Lebanon hosts around 500 of the country’s 29,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. They are the latest wave of displaced people to live there in its 83-year history.
Syrians tortured in Lebanese detention centers: A tale of impunity
More than two decades after Lebanon ratified the UN Convention Against Torture, and despite anti-torture legislation, torture and mistreatment by the country’s security branches persists.
‘I won’t go. I’d rather die’: The agony of two detained Syrian asylum seekers facing deportation from the UK to Rwanda
Legal challenges submitted by several NGOs could halt the UK government plan to offshore asylum seekers to Rwanda, but the threat of deportation is already taking a toll.
10 things to know about the UK deal to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
Fifteen Syrian asylum seekers are scheduled to be deported from the UK to Rwanda on June 14, in the flight inaugurating a controversial ‘offshoring’ deal with the east African country