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S1E19 Ep 19 | Marie’s Story Part 3 – DRC: “I Carry Everything Alone”
What does it mean to carry a household on your own—every day, without pause?In this third chapter of Marie’s oral history, we move into the structure of her daily life in Goma, in the Democratic…
S1E18 Ep 18 | Marie’s Story Part 2 – DRC: A City Under Watch
Goma is a city where life continues, but not freely.In this second part of Marie’s story, we return with her to a place she knows well, yet experiences differently each time she comes back. She…
S1E17 Ep 17 | Marie’s Story Part 1 – DRC: Raised Between Moves
What does it mean to grow up in a place where conflict never fully leaves?In Part 1 of Marie’s oral history, we meet her as a daughter of eastern Congo—born in Masisi, raised between Bukavu and Goma,…
Ep 16 | Kolima’s Story Part 2 – Rohingya: Life in the Waiting
What does life look like when displacement stretches into years?In the final chapter of Kolima’s oral history, we hear from her as she lives now — inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. Her…
Ep 15 | Kolima’s Story Part 1 – Rohingya: The First Stitch
What does it mean to learn survival before you have words for it?In the first chapter of Kolima’s oral history, we meet a Rohingya woman whose early life was shaped by family, restraint, and the…
S1E14 Ep 14 | Lucille’s Story Part 2 – Congo: The Day the City Went Silent
In Part 2 of Lucille’s oral history, she returns to the morning everything changed in Goma. One moment, the neighborhood hummed with its usual rhythm — children walking to school, women bargaining at…
S1E13 Ep 13 | Lucille’s Story Part 1 – Congo: Before the Rebels Came
What does childhood look like in a place where conflict is always humming in the background?In this first chapter of Lucille’s oral history, we meet a daughter of Goma, North Kivu — a girl raised…
Ep 12 | Sakena’s Story Part 4 – Rohingya: Let Home Live in Our Hearts
In the final chapter of Sakena’s story, we return to her quiet corner of Cox’s Bazar, where life moves between memory and prayer.Each morning begins with the call to fajr and ends with the sound of…
Ep 11 | Sakena’s Story Part 3 – Rohingya: Lines That Feed Us
In this chapter of Sakena’s story, we return to Cox’s Bazar — a place where survival is measured in queues. Every morning, women like Sakena rise before dawn to stand in line for water, for food, for…
S1E10 Ep 10 | Sakena’s Story Part 2 – Rohingya: River and Smoke
When danger came to Gudusara, Sakena’s home in Northern Rakhine, it didn’t arrive all at once. It came in whispers first—then in fire, and footsteps, and the sound of people running.In this second…
S1E9 Ep 9 | Sakena’s Story Part 1 – Rohingya: The Days of Blue Skies
Before displacement. Before the border crossings. Before the word “refugee.”There was a girl named Sakena, in a small village called Gudusara in Arakan State, Myanmar — where blue skies meant freedom…
S1E8 Ep 8 | Noor's Story Part 4 - Palestine: Planting Hope
Female heads of households are often the invisible backbone of displacement. They carry a heavier weight in society. Raising children, holding families together, and nurturing the next generation…
S1E7 Ep 7 | Noor's Story Part 3 - Palestine: What's Enough for Us
In Part 3 of Noor’s 4-part series, we follow her through the most difficult turning point of her life: leaving Gaza.After losing her husband Khaled in the bombings of northern Gaza, Noor became the…
S1E6 Ep 6 I Noor's Story Part 2 - Palestine: The Turning Point
In Part 2 of Noor’s story, we step into the turning point of her life in Gaza.October 7, 2023 — a date the world came to recognize in headlines. For Noor, it was the day her life split apart. What…
S1E5 Ep 5 | Noor's Story Part 1: Palestine - Threads of Home
In this first chapter of Noor’s story, we trace the threads that formed her identity long before war and loss. Her roots run through Gaza, from her grandmother’s stories of being displaced from…
S1E4 Ep 4 | Ataa’s Story Part 4 – Shape of a Warrior
What does it mean to become the head of a household overnight? In this final chapter of Ataa’s Story, we follow her through one of the most overlooked transformations in displacement: the moment a…
S1E3 Ep 3 | Ataa’s Story Part 3 – Syria: The Heart of the Home
"I’m one person—but I have to be a mother, a father, a teacher, a provider… I have to be everything."Ataa speaks from her shelter in Zaatari Camp, where daily life for a woman raising four children…
S1E2 Ep 2 | Ataa’s Story Part 2 – Syria: The Border Between Two Lives
"Do you know when you have two lives? Like on your left, you have this life—and on your right side, a completely different life…" Ataa describes how she felt crossing the border of Syria and…
S1E1 Ep 1 | Ataa’s Story Part 1 – Syria: From Books to Bullets
In this moving first part of the 4-part series of Ataa’s Story, titled From Books to Bullets, we are invited into the early chapters of one woman’s life in Syria—before she became a refugee, before…
S1 The Archive Speaks: Why We’re Telling These Stories
The Archive Speaks: TrailerWelcome to The Archive Speaks—a podcast by The Refugee Archive, a digital oral history project focused exclusively on the lived experiences of female-headed refugee…
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