Camillia Gray Has a master’s degree in Theological Studies from Harvard University, with a focus on Islamic studies and the intersection of religion and humanitarianism. From 2021 to 2023, she traveled several times to Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, to conduct field research on NGOs’ relationships with religious leaders and prevailing belief systems in the Rohingya camps. She is currently a security adviser for the International NGO Safety Organization in Northeast Syria. She previously has worked with the United States Institute of Peace, the International Committee for the Red Cross, Oxfam, and the United Nations Development Programme. She tweets @Camillagray
A combination of ingrained tradition and endemic poverty have stymied NGO campaigns to discourage the practice of payments for marriage in the refugee camps despite arguments that the tradition is not part of Islam.
Since the latest iteration of the genocide of the Rohingya people by the Myanmar military began in August 2017, the Rohingya have faced state-sponsored discrimination, violence, and threats to their ethnic identity.
