Resources | Rohingya Cultural Memory Centre

This is RCMC’s comprehensive resource hub, dedicated to preserving and promoting the rich history, society, language, literature, art, music, and culture of the Rohingya people. Here, you will find carefully curated information on a wide range of topics, including films, international exhibitions, and publications that showcase the resilience and creativity of the Rohingya community. These resources provide insight into both traditional and contemporary expressions of Rohingya identity. In addition, this platform connects you to Rohingya organizations worldwide and creative partners, offering access to significant materials and collaborations that highlight the ongoing efforts to safeguard Rohingya heritage and strengthen their voices globally.

History

A chronology of key events in Burma's history with an emphasis on the Rohingya (Holocaust Memorial Museum, 2020)

A Savage Dreamland: Journeys in Burma (Eimer, David. Bloomsbury, 2019)

"My heart cries": For one Rohingya refugee, a dream of home that may never be fulfilled (Wells, Matthew. Vox, September 2019)

The two-year Rohingya crisis in three timelapse satellite GIFs (The New Humanitarian, August 2019)

The Misuses of Histories and Historiography by the state in Myanmar: The Case of Rakhine and Rohingya (Charney, Michael W. SOAS, 2019)

Top Rohingya-hosting countries (Anadolu Agency, August 2019)

Registration gives many Rohingya refugees identification for the first time (UNHCR, May 2019)

Rohingya Refugee Crisis and Ethno-Religious Conflict in South EastAsia: From Burma to Bangladesh and Back (Canefe, Nergis. Refugee Watch 51 & 52, December 2018)

Rohingyas: The Emergence of a Stateless Population (Basu Ray Chaudhury, Sabyasachi. Refugee Watch 51 & 52, December 2018)

Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar (Leider, Jacques. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History, 2018)

Rohingya Ethnic Muslim Minority and the 1982 Citizenship Law in Burma (Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, November 2017)

Memories of Burmese Rohingya Refugees: Contested Identity and Belonging (Farzana, Kazi Fahmida. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)

Notes on a series of cultural and historical articles about Arakan written between 1959 and 1966 by Mohammed A Tahir Ba Tha of Buthidaung (Tonkin, Derek. 2017)

Timeline: Being Rohingya in Myanmar, from 1784 to Now (The Wire, September 2017)

Muslims in Arakan (Charney, Michael W. The Stateless, October 2016)

A Lost Population? East India Company and Arkanese 'Refugees' in Chittagong (Sen, Anandaroop. Refugee Watch: A South Asian Journal on Forced Migration 46, 2015)

Rohingya History: Myth and Reality (Nurain Zul, 2009)

A Short History of Rohingya and Kamans of Burma (Ba Tha, M.A Tahir. Kaladan News, September 2007)

A History of Arakan (Past & Present) (Yunus, Md. Chittagong University, 1994)

The Coming of Islam to Arakan (Buthidaung, Ba Tha. The Guardian Magazine, 1961)

Burma 1948 Citizenship Law

Master Aman Ullah (A Rohingya historian)

Society

Unkind Cut. How a media fixation on sexual violence and exploitation harmed the Rohingya (Krishnan, Vidya. The Caravan, February 2020)

As a Rohingya refugee, I see a renaissance of my people's culture in the Bangladesh camps (Ali, Mayyu, The Independent, February 2020)

Once Home, Now a Jungle (Merkel, Allison. The Inmmigrant Story, September 2019)

Analysis: Using the Term 'Rohingya' (The Irrawaddy, August 2019)

Two Sides of the Same Arakanese Coin: 'Rakhine,' 'Rohingya,' and Ethnogenesis as Schismogenesis (Prasse-Freeman, Elliot & Mausert, Kirt. Kyoto University Press, 2019)

Start-up: The Rohingya entrepreneurs seeking out a living in refugee camps (New Humanitarian, April 2019)

Cause of Cultural Protection: Programming for cultural education and revitalization programmes for stateless Rohingya refugees in Cox?s Bazar, Bangladesh; A short account of Rohingya culture (Mostafa Kamal, Zafari Nurul. SSRN, April 2019)

Dignity and the displaced Rohingya in Bangladesh (Holloway, Kerrie & Fan, Lilianne. HPG, August 2018)

Boundaries in Shaping the Rohingya Identity and the Shifting Context of Borderland Politics (Farzana, Kazi Fahmida. University Utara Malaysia, 2015)

The Rohingyas. A short account of their history and culture (Karim, Abdul. Arakan Historical Society, Chittangong, 2000)

The etymology of Arakan, Rohingya and Rakhine (Alam, Md Ashraf. Bangladesh Institute of Arakan Studies, Chittagong, 2000)

Muslims in Arakan. A Brief Study of the Rohingya, a Muslim Racial Group of Arab Descent in Arakan. The Rohingya Poet, Alawal (Buthidaung, Ba Tha. Islamic Review, Woking, 1965)

Language & Literature