THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN LEBANON POST 1990: DILEMMAS OF SURVIVAL AND RETURN TO PALESTINE.
This article addresses the issue of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, their camps, their resistance, and the challenges they have been facing "as refugees" to survive in the deeply divided state of Lebanon and to return to Palestine. Currently there are about 450,000 Palestinian refugees scattere...
| Publicado en: | Arab Studies Quarterly Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 78 - 95 |
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