Zoe Holman
Zoe Holman is an Australian journalist, researcher and writer, specialising in migration and conflict in the Middle East. Her work has appeared in outlets including London Review of Books, The Economist, The Guardian, VICE and New Internationalist and she is the author of a forthcoming book about conflict and exile in the Eastern Mediterranean. She currently lives in Greece.
Articles by Zoe Holman
Book review: “If I must die” by Refaat Alareer
This posthumous collection of writings serves as a personal record of the atrocities experienced in Gaza
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Book review: My Blue Peninsula by Maureen Freely
Set in Istanbul, this epic family history was inspired by campaigns for justice for the Armenian people
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Book review: Haramacy
Britain-based authors from the Middle East and South Asia explore everything from music and love to heritage and home.
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Book review: What Strange Paradise
A new novel by Omar El Akkad centres on the story of a Syrian boy seeking sanctuary in Europe.
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Hard labour
The risks of childbirth must be managed, but amid competing pressures, women are being denied a voice.
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Afghan refugees in Europe: what “moral duty”?
When it comes to Afghanistan, the UK and EU have long favoured realpolitik over humanitarian values.
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Burning bones
Greece has run out of burial space, but the Orthodox Church won’t allow cremation. Is its motive purely spiritual?
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Syria’s worst crisis is being met with cynicism
As the war in Syria enters a terrifying end-game phase, Europe refuses to engage with what may be the biggest humanitarian disaster of this century.
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