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Refugees Unto the Third Generation - (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) by Benjamin N Schiff (Hardcover)
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- The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was originally established in 1950 as a temporary, nonpolitical response to the Palestinian refugee crisis.
- About the Author: Benjamin Schiff is professor of politics at Oberlin College and the author of International Nuclear Technology Transfer and A Desperate Society: The Afrikaners after Apartheid (with June Goodwin).
- 360 Pages
- Political Science, Public Policy
- Series Name: Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was originally established in 1950 as a temporary, nonpolitical response to the Palestinian refugee crisis. The forty-four-year-old agency has become a fixture in the drama of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Designed to solve refugee problems through massive Jordan Valley water development
projects, today UNRWA runs schools, health clinics for millions, and relief programs for the poorest refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
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A carefully researched and thorough study that sheds valuable light on the internal operations of UNWRA as well as on its interaction over time with the host governments.-- "Ann M. Lesch, Villanova University"
Schiff's scholarship is sound. He has very effectively utilized the very rich lode of information from the archives and records of UNRWA.-- "Benjamin Rivlin, Ralph Bunche Institute on the United Nations, CUNY"
This is one of the most comprehensive surveys of U.N. activities on behalf of the Palestine Arab refugees, covering the period from I 950 to the early 1990s. . . . Schiff covers aspects of the refugee problem not generally published elsewhere with objectivity and informed insight.-- "Don Peretz, professor emeritus, SUNY Binghamton"
About the Author
Benjamin Schiff is professor of politics at Oberlin College and the author of International Nuclear Technology Transfer and A Desperate Society: The Afrikaners after Apartheid (with June Goodwin). He interviewed more than one hundred present and past agency officials worldwide, and was the first person to be given access to UNRWA's main archives at their headquarters in Vienna.Additional product information and recommendations
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