Meet Zayed In a previous post I gave some detail about Arif, a Rohingya refugee turned humanitarian.  His best friend is Zayed, and they share similar paths from refugee to ‘humanitarian.’ A very ambitious and hard working man, Zayed reports he is currently a fixer for the international media, does case management of protection issues under the Danish Refugee Council (DRC), is a freelance writer at Burma Times, and has worked as a Burmese language instructor under CODEC (Community Development Center). He is also a poet, having posted many on his Facebook page in the last months. See here for two of his recent efforts. Zayed met Arif when they were working together at the end of 2017 where they were teaching to the students together at t CODEC in Chittagong, Bangladesh. How do you define ‘humanitarian’? Above and elsewhere I use the awkward phrase ‘refugee/humanitarian’. But what does this term mean? The … Continue reading Zayed, a Rohingya refugee/humanitarian in Cox’s Bazar