Translation and conflict: two narratives of the same coin by Mohammad Ahmad Thawabteh

“…This paper sheds some light on the Palestinian narrative dated from the Israeli occupation of Palestine in 1948, and the birth of the case of the Palestinian refugees driven out from Palestine. Israel has initiated a counter-narrative to that of Palestine. …”
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Correction by Refuge Editor

“… In the Note on the Politics of Counting the World's Refugees (page 12, Sept - Oct, 82 Refuge ), the fifth sentence should read, "The number of Palestinian refugees does include children of refugees ..." …”
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Humanitarian and medical challenges of assisting new refugees in Lebanon and Iraq by Caroline Abu Sa’Da, Micaela Serafini

“…The massive and continuing flows of Syrian and Palestinian refugees to Syria’s neighbours have shown the limitations of humanitarian practice and present new challenges for medical and humanitarian interventions.…”
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Neirab Rehabilitation Project by Lex Takkenberg, Hala Mukhles

“…Rehabilitation of the Neirab camp in northern Syria shows how improving the living conditions of Palestinian refugees need not invalidate their legal status, nor prejudicetheir right to return or receive compensation.…”
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COVID-19 booster prioritization in the West Bank: a survey experiment among Bedouins, refugees, and the majority group by Sarah Carol, Sarah Carol, Ahmad Amro

“…Respondents belonging to a minority saw the profile of an in-group member or a majority-group member, whereas majority-group members would see the profile of an in-group or one out-group member (Bedouin, Palestinian refugee).ResultsWe found slightly higher in-group preferences for Palestinian refugees when it came to vaccination, whereas majority-group members were less inclined to support a prioritization of Palestinian refugees but equally prioritized their group and Bedouins. …”
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Extra-regional refugee resettlement in South America: the Palestinian experience by Marcia Vera Espinoza

“…One of the most visible initiatives was the resettlement of Palestinian refugees in Chile and Brazil during 2007 and 2008.…”
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Refugee-led humanitarianism in Lebanon’s Shatila camp by Hind Sharif

“…Refugee-led humanitarian initiatives by ‘established’ Palestinian refugees in response to the arrival of ‘new’ displaced Syrians to Shatila camp raise key questions about the limitations of the humanitarian system and representations of refugees as passive victims.…”
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Humanitarian and medical challenges of assisting new refugees in Lebanon and Iraq by Abu Sa’Da, C, Serafini, M

“…The massive and continuing flows of Syrian and Palestinian refugees to Syria’s neighbours have shown the limitations of humanitarian practice and present new challenges for medical and humanitarian interventions…”

Extra-regional refugee resettlement in South America: the Palestinian experience by Vera Espinoza, M

“…One of the most visible initiatives was the resettlement of Palestinian refugees in Chile and Brazil during 2007 and 2008.…”

Refugee-led humanitarianism in Lebanon's Shatila camp by Sharif, H

“…Refugee-led humanitarian initiatives by ‘established’ Palestinian refugees in response to the arrival of ‘new’ displaced Syrians to Shatila camp raise key questions about the limitations of the humanitarian system and representations of refugees as passive victims.…”

Politiques linguistiques, contraintes sociolinguistiques et usages des langues dans les écoles de l’UNRWA au Liban by Myriam Abou-Samra

“…In the light of sociopolitical and sociolinguistic data, we are going to analyze how the teaching of curricular subjects through the medium of French in this context of the schooling of the Palestinian refugees can influence the linguistic realizations. …”
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The Right to Restitution and Compensation in International Law and the Displaced Palestinians by Michael Lynk

“…In any final settlement between Israel and the Palestinians, compensation for the material and moral losses of the Palestinian refugees will be a central feature. The parties have ostensibly agreed that compensation will be paid, but differ significantly on the principles that will determine the global amount of compensation, the valuation of losses, and the method of distribution to the recipients. …”
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Znaczenie pomocy rozwojowej w polityce Królestwa Hiszpanii w latach 1995–2020 by Justyna Salamon

“…Spain is involved in the work of the World Bank and the African Development Fund (FAD – Fondo Africano de Desarrollo) and the United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA – Spanish: Agencia de Naciones Unidas para los Refugiados de Palestina en Oriente Próximo). …”
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Forced Migration in the Middle East: The Palestinian and Syrian Refugee Experience by Meltem YNCE YENILMEZ

“…This paper looks at the experience of two populations, the Palestinian refugees, who experienced their initial displacement in the mid-20th century, and the current day growing population of Syrian refugees. …”
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Values at work: a case of labourers in agribusiness (Jordan) by Mauro Van Aken

“…In a context that has been reshaped in the last half a century by conflict and displacement, the peculiar borderland that divides the Jordanian east bank from the Occupied Territories in the West bank, has been transformed due to intensive rural modernisation, a process that has generated new ideas and values of work and of working persons. Palestinian refugees have settled among Jordanian Bedouins, the Ghawarneh tribe and after the 1970s, Egyptian labourers and a smaller Pakistani community and have shaped a context where terms of belonging are daily at work and overlap on the new agribusiness. …”
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Palestine at the UN: The PLO’s relations with UNRWA in the 1970s by Irfan, A

“…That approach resulted in a complex set of tensions, specifically over which of the two institutions truly served and represented Palestinian refugees. In exploring these tensions, this article also demonstrates how the “question of Palestine” was in many ways an international issue.…”

Petitioning for Palestine: Refugee appeals to international authorities by Irfan, AE

“…In the second half of the twentieth century, stateless Palestinian refugees regularly submitted petitions to international authorities, particularly the UN. …”

Defying Distance by Farah Saleh

“…Through the work, I investigated ways of defying distance between third generation Palestinian refugees, which was created by Israel’s regime of dispossession. …”
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L’amélioration des conditions de vie dans les camps de réfugiés palestiniens à Amman ou la dé-théâtralisation de l’urbanisme jordanien by Lucas Oesch

“…By analysing urban development in Palestinian refugee camps in Amman, this article highlights the heterogeneity of urban planning strategies and discourses that exist in Jordan. …”
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POSTCOLONIAL ARABIC FICTION REVISITED: NATURALISM AND EXISTENTIALISM IN GHASSAN KANAFANI’S MEN IN THE SUN by Shadi Saleh Neimneh

“…In the novella, the sun and the desert are a pivotal existential symbol juxtaposed against the despicable life led by three Palestinian refugees. The gruesome death we encounter testifies to the absurdity of life after attempts at self-definition through making choices. …”
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