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Refugees

Commentary Refugees

The Mobilizing Power of Palestinians in Lebanon

by Mai Abu Moghli on March 7, 2022

For decades, Lebanese and Palestinian leadership, as well as the international aid community, have been complicit in Palestinian refugees’ destitution in Lebanon’s camps. However, the tide is shifting. Al-Shabaka’s policy analyst, Mai Abu Moghli, examines how Palestinians in Lebanon have been increasingly staking claims to their rights through collective mobilization, charting a new and revolutionary path for themselves in the country.

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Policy Memo Refugees

Palestinian Refugees and Lebanon’s Multilayered Crisis

by Jaber Suleiman on September 29, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic and the August 4 explosion at Beirut’s port exacerbated an already multilayered crisis in Lebanon which crippled its economy and led to massive popular protests. How has this situation affected marginalized communities? Al-Shabaka policy analyst Jaber Suleiman describes the scope of the crisis and its impact on Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, explaining what more needs to be done to support them. 

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Policy Memo Refugees

It’s Time to Reclaim UNRWA

by Randa Farah on April 7, 2020

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With COVID-19 spreading in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and neighboring refugee camps, the consequences of the US’s defunding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees are even more dire. Al-Shabaka’s Randa Farah examines these challenges and outlines ways Palestinians can reclaim UNRWA and ultimately use it as a vehicle of empowerment and self-determination.

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Policy Memo Refugees

Abbas’s Craven Response to the US UNRWA Cuts

by Randa Farah on March 15, 2018

The US administration’s $65 million cut to UNRWA has placed the agency in jeopardy, prompting an international conference in Rome this week to help it meet its financial needs. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Randa Farah analyzes Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s response to the US move, and calls for Palestinian grassroots action in the face of the crisis.

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Focus Refugees

Focus On: Palestinian Refugees

by Mai Abu Moghli, Nael Bitarie, Nell Gabiam, Ahmad Diab, Rosemary Sayigh, Dalal Yassine, Oroub el-Abed, Jaber Suleiman, Munir Nuseibah, Hazem Jamjoum, Randa Farah, Mayssun Succarie on May 13, 2017

This collection of some of the most compelling pieces Al-Shabaka has published contextualizes and discusses the unique difficulties of Palestinian refugees displaced across the Middle East – from becoming refugees a second or third time due to the ongoing Syrian civil war to over-researching camps “famous” for tragedy while under-researching other refugee situations and exile communities.

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Commentary Refugees

Researching Palestinian Refugees: Who Sets the Agenda?

by Anaheed Al-Hardan on April 27, 2017

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Research on Palestinian refugees overwhelmingly takes place in camps. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Anaheed Al-Hardan critiques this trend, tracing the ways in which such research is based on unequal power relations, a hegemony of European knowledge, and “Westernized” universities that ensure its production. She concludes with recommendations for how researchers can begin to address this intellectual pitfall.

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Policy Brief Refugees

Palestinians and the Syrian War: Between Neutrality and Dissent

by Samar Batrawi on January 29, 2017

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The Palestinians of Syria are forced to maintain political neutrality or support the regime, given their vulnerable position. Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Samar Batrawi unpacks the roots of this predicament, identifies avenues that suggest how to move beyond it, and recommends tactics for Palestinians in Syria and elsewhere to better advocate for human rights and self-determination.

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Commentary Refugees

Israel’s Dangerous New Transfer Tactic in Jerusalem

by Munir Nuseibah on April 12, 2016

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Israel exploits temporary crises to promote permanent measures that it uses to create new refugees and internally displaced Palestinians. Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Munir Nuseibah discusses the cases and events used as precedents since the 1990s, and zeroes in on the latest effort to dispossess Palestinians accused of a breach of allegiance to Israel.

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Policy Brief Refugees

Palestinian Refugees From Syria: Stranded on the Margins of Law

by Mai Abu Moghli, Nael Bitarie, Nell Gabiam on October 19, 2015

Al-Shabaka policy analysts Mai Abu Moghli, Nael Bitarie, and Nell Gabiam analyze the effects of the war in Syria on Palestinian refugees through a succinct, country-by-country analysis of the legal and social obstacles they face. They examine the discriminatory legal framework that is being applied to the Palestinian refugees from Syria by Arab countries as well as by the international community, and underscore that the Israeli government’s denial of the right of return of Palestinian refugees – in violation of international law - is a major factor in the current vulnerability of the Palestinians of Syria.

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Roundtable Refugees

The Arguments Against Palestine Giving Its Refugees Citizenship

by Randa Farah, Ingrid Jaradat Gassner, Anis Kassim, Mouin Rabbani, Samah Sabawi, Jaber Suleiman, Fateh Azzam on June 2, 2015

Overview The rights of Palestinian refugees have been long neglected and their suffering has been carried from generation to generation for 67 years. In his recent piece A Bold Proposal: Palestine Should Give Its Refugees Citizenship, Al-Shabaka Policy Advisor Fateh Azzam argued that the State of Palestine should confer citizenship on its stateless refugees and…

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