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LAST year, a group of refugees living in the notorious Moria camp on Lesbos started a magazine to tell their own stories on their own terms.
They decided to call it Refugee Journal and fill its pages with everything from sports and music, to hard-hitting features and interviews.
Two editions were published, both written and designed by them.
I had the privilege of assisting the Refugee Journal team while volunteering at a community centre on the island last year.
We created the magazines during workshops in a tiny media studio in the centre, which was run by Where Borders Meet, a grassroots group that shares media skills with refugees.
In this way asylum-seekers were given the tools to tell their own stories, away from external influence and exploitation.
This World Refugee Day, I wanted to share some of these stories with you from two writers of the Refugee Journal team.
In the first story Mustafa Mohammadi writes about the struggles of trying to run a business in Moria’s shopping street: mstar.link/Mustafa.
In the second story, an anonymous refugee from Afghanistan explains how and why he fled his country and ended up stuck Greece’s Byzantine asylum system: mstar.link/MoriaUnknownPrison
