Middle East and North Africa: Racism in MENA Region

Blackface and anti-blackness in the Arab World – Mohamed Hassan, Middle East Eye

Hey Mom, can you buy me that soap? @otofficial

Palestinian actress shares her take on Arab racism – The New Arab

Blackface: The ugliness of racism in Arab media – Al Jazeera

A conversation about racism in the Middle East with Abeer Sinder, Aziza Sbaity and Ubah Ali – The National

Human Rights Publications

Turkey 

 Kurdish Human Rights Project

Iran

• Iran: Religious and Ethnic Minorities: Discrimination in law & Practice The situation of religious and ethnic minorities is a neglected aspect of the human rights picture in Iran. With the exception of the persecution of the Baha'i religious minority, little has been written about human rights problems experienced by minorities. Yet, as this report shows, ethnic and religious differences underlie some of the most persistent and serious human rights problems in Iran today.

Iraq

• Genocide in Iraq: The Anfal Campaign Against the Kurds A narrative account of the Iraqi government's organized attempt to eradicate the Kurds living in northern Iraq, this report captures in riveting detail the multiple phases of the Anfal campaign. Over almost two years, Human Rights Watch analyzed tons of captured Iraqi government documents and carried out field interviews with more than 350 witnesses, most of them survivors of the 1988 campaign.

Israel

• A License to Kill: Israeli Undercover Operations Against "Wanted" and Masked Palestinians Undercover units of the Israeli army have been responsible for over 120 killings in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip since 1988. Many of the victims were shot while posing no serious imminent threat to soldiers or others. Human Rights Watch charged that unjustified killings by undercover units were not aberrations; rather they constituted a pattern that could only continue with the complicity of the Israeli government.
• Isolation of Jerusalem: Restrictions on Movement Causing Severe Hardship in Occupied Territories The hardships caused by Israel's indefinite ban on the entry of nearly all the 1.8 million Palestinian residents of the West Bank and Gaza Strip into Israel and annexed East Jerusalem included the abrupt loss of income for some 100,000 Palestinians; lack of access to hospitals, mosques, and other vital institutions; the division of the occupied territories into four sectors; and a drastic reduction in visits by lawyers to Palestinians incarcerated in Israel.

Kuwait

• The Bedoons of Kuwait: "Citizens without Citizenship" Kuwait practices a system of institutionalized discrimination against its residents known as Bedoons, longtime inhabitants who have been denied Kuwaiti citizenship and are now being rendered stateless. Barred from employment, denied education for their children, restricted in their movements, and living under the constant threat of arbitrary arrest and deportation, Bedoons are a community of "have nots" in one of the wealthiest countries in the world.

Syria

• Syria, The Silenced Kurds Kurds are the largest non-Arab ethnic minority in Syria. This report documents the situation of stateless Syrian-born Kurds, who have been denied the right to Syrian nationality in violation of international law. These Kurds, who have no claim to a nationality other than Syrian, are literally trapped in Syria: not only are they treated in a discriminatory fashion in the land of their birth, but also they do not have the option of relocating to another country because they lack passports or other internationally recognized travel documents.