{"id":286768,"date":"2016-12-22T05:55:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T04:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-guidebook-from-arab-culture-fund-shows-migrants-how-to-invade-europe\/"},"modified":"2016-12-22T05:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T04:55:55","slug":"new-guidebook-from-arab-culture-fund-shows-migrants-how-to-invade-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/new-guidebook-from-arab-culture-fund-shows-migrants-how-to-invade-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"New &quot;Guidebook&quot; From Arab Culture Fund Shows Migrants How to Invade Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Mirhatam Safi was 17 when he left Afghanistan. That was after the Taliban had repeatedly tried to recruit him. They first came for him when he was 15. \u201cWhen I refused, they tortured me and broke my leg,\u201d he says. \u201cStaying was not an option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, Safi lives alone in Lubbeek, Belgium, having left his family behind. \u201cI\u2019m in school in a class with other refugees,\u201d he says. \u201cI now understand the true meaning of education. One day I hope to be a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of refugees have come to Europe in recent months and years, escaping war in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, each with his or her own story. Safi\u2019s is one such story published in <em>Europa<\/em>, a new book developed by Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak with the help of various organizations such as Cortona on the Move and the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture and the leadership of Jessica Murray and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-liquindoi.com\/en\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Al-liquindoi<\/a> organization. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabculturefund.org\/projects\/project.php?id=1\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Europa<\/em><\/a> isn\u2019t a photobook; it\u2019s an \u201cillustrated introduction to Europe for migrants and refugees\u201d written in four languages \u2014 French, English, Farsi and Arabic and available at no charge to NGOs, refugees and migrants. The book brings together facts about Europe\u2019s history, especially its migratory past, with current information about how European countries welcome refugees and migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was documenting the refugee crisis myself and talked to refugees, all they had were questions,\u201d Dworzak tells TIME. \u201cThey didn\u2019t ask for money. They asked questions; lots of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/new-guidebook-from-arab-culture-fund-shows-migrants-how-to-invade-europe\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mirhatam Safi was 17 when he left Afghanistan. That was after the Taliban had repeatedly tried to recruit him. They first came for him when he was 15. \u201cWhen I refused, they tortured me and broke my leg,\u201d he says. \u201cStaying was not an option.\u201d Now, Safi lives alone in Lubbeek, Belgium, having left his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-286768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}