Médecins Sans Frontières - HUMANITY WITHOUT BORDERS: MSF Staff Myriam Abdel-Basit / Cultural Mediator

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF247413

Date taken / Date Recorded 17/05/2018 12:00 AM

Country Germany, Greece

Commissioning section MSF-GERMANY

Photographer / videographer / producer Lena Langbein

Copyright Lena Langbein/MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) Advertising Campaign, MSF Fundraising, MSF Publications, Social Media

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Editor's rating ★★★★ (E)

Video format h264 (High) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m24s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 210.85 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist Myriam Abdel-Basit / Cultural Mediator MSF, Greece, Refugee-Camp Moria
Interview May 2018

Myriam grew up in Irland and is half-Irish, half-Sudanese. When we met her she was working as an Arabic speaking cultural mediator in a children’s clinic opposite Moria camp in Lesbos, Greece.

Subtitles
There is also a real beautiful aspect of
kind of people that from different countries also supporting each other.
Even though they might be from two different countries that are traditionally, sort of like... there is tensions between them.
For example, I met a guy from Iraq and he basically speaks multiple different languages.
He’s very, very talented.
He speaks English, Arabic, Farsi and Kurdish.
And he still has this spirit of like helping people and supporting people with translation.
So I haven’t seen this guy not busy or not running somewhere.
Whenever I am in the camp I see him rushing to some sort of interview,
here with lawyers, here with the doctors, literally everywhere.
Just supporting people with his languages.
And he doesn’t necessarily have to have some sort of
connection or responsibility of the person that he is helping.
He just feels it necessary. He feels happy when he is translating for people.
It’s kind like a level of sacrifice, and despite cultural differences and despite differences, despite all odds, Moria does bring people together and has brought people together.

HUMANITY WITHOUT BORDERS: MSF Staff Myriam Abdel-Basit / Cultural Mediator | ENGLISH

HUMANITY WITHOUT BORDERS: MSF Staff Myriam Abdel-Basit / Cultural Mediator | ENGLISH