Collateral Repair Podcast

In this bonus episode, Grace Nuri, the artist behind the beautiful graffiti you encounter at our centers, reflects upon the significance of this community project.  The Community Art Project first started in the summer of 2023 and saw the completion of several outstanding mural pieces in both our centers. More recently, Grace came back to Amman to visit the city and her family and decided to devel...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 7, "Community Empowerment" Many of our recent episodes have focused on policy…. Good policy, and bad policy, and the policies that need to change. But these are shifts that might take generations, and in the meantime, refugee communities don’t have the luxury of waiting.  For our final episode of Season 2, we bring our attention back to Jordan. We hear from Ricky...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 6, “The Border Inside: Notes from Belgrade and El Paso” It might seem strange for a podcast about displacement in the Middle East to suddenly pivot to two other continents. But that’s exactly what we’re doing here! In Belgrade, Serbia, Zach talks to his friend Zaki, who left Afghanistan to seek safety in Europe. And from El Paso, TX, USA, Zach speaks to Jesús de la Torre a...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 5, “On the Other Side of Waiting: The Long Path to Resettlement with Kitti Murray.” Most people registered as refugees in Jordan hope that, one day, they will be accepted for resettlement to countries in North America and Europe, where there are more viable paths to work and citizenship. However, last year, just 1.4% of Jordan’s refugees were accepted for resettlement. The...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 4, “Refugees and Jordan’s Economy with Shaddin al-Masri.” To survive in today’s world, you need money. And to make money, you need a job. But this is not a simple proposition for Jordan’s 700,000 refugees, the majority of whom face exclusion from Jordan’s formal economy. In this episode, we talk to Shaddin al-Masri, a PhD student at Danube University Krems whose research f...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 3, “Jordan and the ‘One Refugee Approach.’” Jordan's refugee response actors say their work has been guided by the ‘One Refugee Approach.” That is, a refugee is a refugee, deserving of the same rights no matter where they’re from. But is this the case in practice?  We talk to two members of CRP’s community from Sudan and Yemen, who tell us about the challenges faced by...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 2, “Refuge, Home, and Memory in Hashemi Shamali.” Our second episode of the season discusses CRP’s home neighborhood of Hashemi Shamali in East Amman, which has long been a refuge for people fleeing from other countries.  We speak to two members of the community who arrived from Syria, 40 years apart, about their lives in Hashemi, memories of their old country, and prospec...

Season 2 (2024): Episode 1, “The Waiting Station.” After a five year hiatus, the Collateral Repair Podcast is back! This season, we’ll be exploring the lived experiences of refugees in Jordan and the policies affecting them, amid the wider context of global displacement. In our introductory episode, we talk to Ali, a CRP colleague and member of Amman’s Iraqi community, and Amanda Lane, CRP’s execu...

ARCHIVE Season 1 (2019): The Mandaeans are a small ethnoreligious group who were living exclusively in the south of Iraq and Iran until they recently had to flee their homelands. Today we will be looking into who they are, why they left, and a snippet of their beliefs.

ARCHIVE Season 1 (2019). In this episode we talk about winter. Munah, an Iraqi refugee who came to Jordan with her two sons a few years ago, talks to us about her experiences of trying to settle in a new country during winter, and the stresses it induced in her family. Following that, we talk to a team of mental health professionals from Médicine Sans Frontières about mental health challenges refu...

ARCHIVE Season 1 (2018): We sit down with Amanda Lane who is the executive director at Collateral Repair Project, and reflect on how far the organization has come since her arrival. We also talk about CRP's future plans, the new center, and what's in store for 2019.

ARCHIVE Season 1 (2018): In this episode of the Collateral Repair Podcast, we examine the daunting challenges refugees go through when looking for a job. Emad, a Syrian who crossed the border into Jordan in 2012, walks us through his job hunting experiences in Amman. After that, Anas Al Chalabi, who is an NGO consultant with UN, explains the differences between Syrian and Iraqi refugee employment...

ARCHIVE Season 1 (2018): This episode marks the launch of the Collateral Repair Podcast, a new platform from Collateral Repair Project to tell the stories of refugees living in Amman, Jordan. We begin our program with an episode on education, a critical and complex factor in refugee children’s lives after displacement. You will hear from Suleiman, an Iraqi teen who took a singularly unique educati...