Once upon a time, there was and still is a communication between the cultures of the occident and the Arab Orient. It appeared in form of ebbs and flows in the past, and continues to unfold developing into streams full of motion, creating history through out time, moving from the past to the present into the future.Intercultural communication swung between Islamic expansions
Over nearly a year of a pandemic, many people have become acutely aware of what it means to be confined to their homes. But for asylum-seekers who have been held in Australian hotels, these stifling conditions have stretched on for months and months, pushing some to the breaking point. Two have tried to commit suicide.
Jan 22, 2021
Melbourne – When authorities brought Ramsiyar Sabanayagam to the Mantra Bell City Preston hotel in suburban Melbourne in November 2019, he assumed he would be there for only a few weeks.
Instead, Sabanayagam, a refugee from Sri Lanka, spent the next 14 months locked inside his room for all but a brief period each day, unsure when his ordeal would end.
He and the other refugees detained in the hotel were ordered to keep their windows shut until, after protesting, they were allowed to crack them open, but no more than 4 inches. Guards checked on them day and night, sometimes shining flashlights into their faces while they slept. The men could see guests coming and going, and they knew that people were gathering with friends and loved ones in the dining hall below, but they had no hope of joining them.