In Jordan, apartment buildings are managed and run by mostly Egyptian migrant workers, often referred to as boabs or janitors. They live in small nooks in the basement-level parking garages of the buildings they maintain. Most of these men leave behind families and are seldom given the chance to return home for visits.

AMMAN, Jordan: As cholera grows rampant across drought-stricken countries, impacted further by climate change, war-torn regions such as Syria and Lebanon face additional challenges from the disease, leaving medical and volunteer teams scrambling to keep up.

Light, and specifically the contrast of light, plays a dominant role in the photo labeled “November 06, 2016,” from the series Banned Beauty by photographer Heba Khamis (see fig. 1). The image documents a family of women gathered together in their home—a mother with her four children. The mother assists her eldest daughter who is participating in the cultural tradition of breast ironing or flattening, in Cameroon. The girl’s younger sibling stands beside her—her chest wrapped and taped, depicting her involvement as well in the breast flattening tradition.

Most refugees are fleeing war or violence. But for rainbow refugees like Sulah, identifying as LGBTQ+ is reason enough to flee violence and persecution back home.

Sulah Mawejji, a refugee from Uganda, went to live with relatives after his mother and later father passed away—both from HIV. When those relatives learned he was gay, Sulah was bullied and told to leave at just 16 years old.