Details can be found on the Kathimerini website, news partner with The New York Times: http://www.ekathimerini.com/220000/gallery/ekathimerini/community/princeton-students-capture-photo-video-footage-of-moria-migrant-camp-riot
On July 10, migrants living in a camp near the town of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos demonstrated against their deteriorating living conditions. Then things got out of hand. Our video team was there.
Fiery riot in Moria migrant camp
By Talya Nevins MORIA, Greece— A riot and fire today tore through the Moria migrant camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. Moria camp is the primary reception center for refugees who land on the Greek island of Lesbos, just five miles from the Turkish coast. Princeton University journalists who were working outside the camp
By Chiara Ficarelli SKARAMAGAS, Greece — Marwan Al-Ajam likes to fish. On this Friday, the sea lapping on the dock at the Skaramagas migrant camp is giving. Al-Ajam’s green bucket is filled with more than a dozen fish. Tonight he will feast. “The little ones are very delicious,” Al-Ajam said, referring to the silver fish,
On the Greek island of Lesbos, thousands of migrants live in Moria migrant camp. Many migrants who arrived seeking international protection as refugees have been stuck on Lesbos for months, or even years. In July, tensions were rising quickly – until one day, they boiled. Aired on WPRB radio, March 2018 https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wprb-news-and-culture/e/53829254?autoplay=true
For migrants, language can be among their biggest challenges. If they don’t know where in the world they will end up, how can they know which language to master? And where do they begin? Glodie Makunda of The Congo teaches English to migrants on the Greek island of Lesbos. He strives to transform English from
Found in Translation
By Ethan Sterenfeld MYTILENE, Greece– Late last year, Mohamad Hassan Atye arrived on the Greek island of Lesbos confused, lost and unsure. “I heard the name of Greece just when we arrived here,” said the 24-year-old native of Afghanistan. “The police catch us from the sea, and they show us … a paper. They say,
Isolated in Greek Camps, Migrants Find Work
By Alice Maiden Mustafa Balqes is a 26-year-old Syrian who opened a café in Skaramagas migrant camp in July. Surrounded by bamboo fences and stocked with new wooden tables, his café adds color to the stark camp. Pink flowers on the tables frame the view of the Aegean Sea. He installed a foosball and pool
By Andie Ayala In recent years, more than 1 million migrants have floated across the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, landing on the island of Lesbos. Hundreds of their boats happened to wash ashore on a small tourist beach directly behind the Aphrodite Hotel. The Aphrodite Hotel has 53 rooms, a pool, a
Princeton Alumni Weekly magazine recently spoke with journalists Talya Nevins and Alice Maiden, and wove the lessons they shared about their work in Greece into a podcast. https://paw.princeton.edu/podcast/qa-talya-nevins-18-and-alice-maiden-19-reporting-about-refugees-greece
By Andie Ayala and Chiara Ficarelli MYTILENE, Greece –– As flames engulfed the Moria migrant camp last week, Iranian migrant Arash Hampay sat quietly a few miles away in the shade of a bus stop in the center of the quaint town of Mytilene. Next to Hampay was a cardboard sign that read, “Hunger
Footage by Chiara Ficarelli, Andie Ayala, Talya Rose Nevins. Produced by Chiara Ficarelli. When migrants wash ashore on Greek islands such as Lesbos and Chios, they actually have taken only their first step toward a new life in Europe. After days or months, most board a commercial ferry for the Port of Piraeus in the
Student reporting on the Moria refugee camp has been named an Editor’s Pick and ranked as Most Popular by Kathimerini, the Greek news partner of The New York Times
