Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

by Michael R. Fischbach

No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees. This work focuses on the controversial question of the property left behind by the refugees during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Beyond discussing the extent of the refugees'losses and detailing the methods by which Israel expropriated this property, the book also notes the ways that the property question has affected, and in turn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231129785
• ISBN13: 9780231129787
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.9" x 8.7"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher