Shatila as a <i>Campscape</i>: The Transformation of Bare Lives into “Agent Lives” in <i>Shatila Stories</i> by Francisco Fuentes-Antrás

“…In 2017, the Peirene Press publisher Meike Ziervogel and London-based Syrian editor Suhir Hedal travelled to the camp to hold a three-day creative writing workshop in which nine Syrian and Palestinian refugees participated. The result is <i>Shatila</i> Stories (2018), a brilliant piece of collaborative fiction translated from Arabic to English by Naswa Gowanlock. …”
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CONTROVERSIAL FOREIGN AFFAIRS IN THE MIDDLE EAST – U.S. STRATEGY REGARDING THE ISRAELI – PALESTINIAN CONFLICT by GHET ANIS I. S

“…The Middle East was an area of ​​interference of the two blocks, where the problem of the several hundred thousand Palestinian refugees published in 1949, exacerbated after the June 1967 conflict, were added permanent interference with the Soviet and the US. …”
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Invisible refugees and/or overlapping refugeedom? Protecting sahrawis and palestinians displaced by the 2011 Libyan uprising by Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, E

“…Finally, analysing the 'solutions' promoted for Sahrawi and Palestinian refugees in this context leads to an assessment of whether such responses can be considered to offer effective protection to these populations. …”

From emergency to durable water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) interventions: insights from the protracted Syrian refugee situation in Lebanon by Hani Chatila, Christian Fischer, Godfred Amankwaa, Troy Sternberg

“…Factors contributing to a slow uptake of durable WASH solutions include Lebanon not being a signatory of the 1951 Refugee Convention, a ‘no camp’ policy adopted by the Government of Lebanon, aid agencies under pressure to cater for lifesaving WASH needs of the Syrian refugees, a lack of sufficient funds, Syrian refugee migration to Europe in 2014, limited Syrian refugee resettlement options, terrorism at the Lebanese border in 2014, as well as fears of nationalization of Syrian refugees – rooted in experiences from the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The paper demonstrates that the overall WASH response to Syrian refugees in Lebanon mirrors the interplay between aid agencies, the donor community and the Government of Lebanon. …”
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A systematic review of the burden of hypertension, access to services and patient views of hypertension in humanitarian crisis settings by Oyinlola Oyebode, James Keasley, Saran Shantikumar, William Proto, Majel McGranahan, Amar Sabouni, Farah Kidy

“…They reported on a range of crises including the wars in Syria and Iraq, the Great East Japan Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina and Palestinian refugees. There were few studies from Africa or Asia (excluding Japan). …”
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Examining socio-ecological factors contributing to the promotion and protection of education for unaccompanied and separated children in Jordan by Aleghfeli, YK

“…The study examined the relationship between UASC status and educational achievement among Palestinian refugees in Jordan using the PISA 2009 dataset. …”

Textlinguistic perspective in newspaper editorial texts: al-Quds al-'Arabi newspaper as a case study by Mogaji, Tijani Akinola, Jumingan, Muhammad Fauzi, Ismail, Muhd Zulkifli, Othman, Mohd Sukki, Yaqub, Muhammad Olatunde

“…Al-Quds al-‘Arabi is a fiercely independent,political daily Arabic newspaper which is published in London since 1989 by Palestinian refugees. It is clear from the analysis that cohesion is the basic standard of text linguistics which plays significant role in the formation of the text, this is demonstrated by the presence of most elements of cohesion such as demonstrative pronouns,relative pronouns,pro-forms, references (internal & external), conjuncts,deitics, tenses and repetition in the text, whereas, there is absolutely no substitution, deletion and collocation whatsoever. …”
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The relationship between relative deprivation and self-rated health among Palestinian women in refugee camps in Lebanon by Nisreen Salti, Sawsan Abdulrahim

“…Keywords: Relative deprivation, Self-rated health, Palestinian refugees, Lebanon…”
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Metabolic Syndrome Associated with Tobacco and Caffeine Products Use Among Refugee Adolescents: Risk of Dyslipidemia by Damiri B, Khatib O, Nazzal Z, Sanduka D, Igbaria S, Thabaleh A, Farhoud A, Saudi L, Belkebir S, Al Ali R, Alili M, Hamdan M, Safarini OA, Younis O

“…Box 7, Nablus, 00970, PalestineTel +972592234270Email bdamiri@najah.eduIntroduction: Due to their stressful lives, Palestinian refugees are prone to use cognitive enhancers (CE) and psychostimulant substances (PS). …”
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update by FMR Editors

“…Palestinian refugee protection needs go unmet…”
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Prevalence of functional constipation among Palestinian preschool children and the relation to stressful life events. by Denise Froon-Torenstra, Elise Beket, Ali M Khader, Majed Hababeh, Arwa Nasir, Akihiro Seita, Marc A Benninga, Maartje M van den Berg

“…<h4>Results</h4>Twelve percent of the Palestinian refugee children fulfilled the criteria for FC. …”
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World News by Refuge Editor

“… Ninety-eight United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) schools were closed in the West Bank from 3 to 9 April at the order of the Israeli occupation authorities, affecting 39,568 Palestinian refugee children (in addition to the 26,000 children in gov- ernment and private schools in the West Bank which have been closed for the same period). …”
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Human-made. Waste as a resource for urban regeneration in Jabal al Jofeh refugee camp by Noor Marji, Janset Shawash, Narmeen Marji

“…The paper deals with the use of waste as a resource for urban regeneration and social integration of marginalised communities in Amman (Jordan) through the case study of the Jabal al Jofeh refugee camp, a poor ‘informal’ area with a Palestinian refugee population characterised by high crime, unemployment and poverty rates. …”
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Jouer le jeu ? Les Palestiniens du Liban, entre marginalisation sociale et « rhétorique de l’officiel » by Nicolas Dot-Pouillard

“…Since 2006 and the reopening of the representation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Beirut and the creation of the Lebanese-Palestinian Dialogue Committee (LPDC) in 2006, Palestinians and Lebanese developed a “rhetoric of the official,” where they would negotiate as equals the living conditions of the Palestinians refugees. Lebanese recognition of “a right to have rights”, does not imply an immediate granting of such rights. …”
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On Refugee Agency, Bio-Politics, and a New World by Hashem Abushama

“…Thinking with the case study of Palestinian refugee camps, particularly in the West Bank, it argues that there are clear limitations to the discourse of and bare life. …”
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Politiser le quotidien par le translocal by Alex Mahoudeau

“…Relying on the idea of a “politics of scale”, this paper is interested in the ways in which the actions of a group of activists in the Palestinian refugee camps of Beirut have led to the construction and mobilisation of a particular and translocal relation of scale, through investment in the production and diffusion of local problems focused on the everyday and material life of the camps. …”
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Novel results on conformable Bessel functions by Martínez Francisco, Martínez Inmaculada, Kaabar Mohammed K. A., Paredes Silvestre

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Theoretical and methodological challenges of studying refugee children in the Middle East and North Africa: Young Palestinian, Afghan and Sahrawi refugees by Chatty, D, Crivello, G, Hundt, G

“…This article is based on observations derived from a six-year, multi-disciplinary anthropological and participatory research programme that examined the impact of forced migration on young people in the Middle East and North Africa: Palestinian refugee youth in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza, Sahrawi youth in Algeria, and Afghan youth in Iran. …”

Blowing-up solutions for time-fractional equations on a bounded domain by Abdellatif Boutiara, Mohammed KA Kaabar, Maamar Benbachir, Mohammad Esmael Samei, Xiao-Guang Yue

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Refugees, exiles, and other forced migrants in the late ottoman empire by Chatty, D

“…Occasionally the Nansen era of the 1920s is examined or the opening years of, say, the Palestinian refugee crisis is addressed. But by and large the circumstances, experiences, and influences of refugees and exiles in modern history are ignored. …”