In June 2018, Professor Cilene Victor visited the Syrian and Palestinian refugee camps for the first time in the country with the largest immigrant population per capita. These include Al-Alawda and Al-Yasmine, in the Beqaa Valley, where the Syrian population that sought refuge in the neighboring country has been sheltered, and Ein El Hilweh, in Sidon, a Palestinian refugee camp created in 1948. In October of the same year, the professor returned to the country with Wagner Ribeiro, a humanitarian photojournalist and then a master's student at PósCom, and Abdo Ja Rour, a Syrian refugee in Brazil. They visited the camps in the Beqaa Valley and Tripoli, but were not allowed to enter Ein El Hilweh by the Lebanese authorities. Professor Cilene Victor's third trip to the country took place in July 2019, with Lilian Sanches, a journalist and then a master's student at PósCom, who repeated the same visits to the Beqaa and Tripoli camps, but were also unable to enter the Palestinian camp in Sidon.
These last two field experiences resulted in a gallery of photos and reports published by Jornal da Cultura, based on the principles of humanitarian journalism, especially by prioritizing the voices of immigrants and refugees and humanitarian workers, to the detriment of speeches by official authorities. The visits to the Syrian refugee camps were only possible thanks to the team at URDA, one of the most important humanitarian agencies in the world and responsible for some of the camps in the country.