Jenny Gustaffson

Independent writer and journalist, living in Beirut and working across the Middle East and South Asia. She writes on issues ranging from development and society to politics, with a particular interest in urban transformation and handicraft traditions. Co-founder of Mashallah News

Sudan, an Unexpected Haven for Syrian Refugees Jenny Gustaffson · April 2019 With most other doors firmly closed to them, Syrians escaping the war have found a welcome respite in Sudan.
First out was Egypt, in the summer of 2013. Then came Jordan and Lebanon, in 2014 and early 2015, and finally Turkey, one year later. Even Algeria, a country that had insisted on (...)