English language Quarterly for the Promotion of 
Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights 
Publisher: BADIL Resource Center 
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BADIL Resource Center 
18 January 2000 
For Immediate Release 

In this issue of AL-MAJDAL, we take a special look at Palestinian refugees in Syria. We also examine the issue of Palestinian refugees who were expelled from the demilitarized zones, particularly in the north (armistice line Israel-Syria), after the Nakba and throughout the early 1950s. AL-MAJDAL also provides an indepth update of activities for the Campaign for the Defense of Palestinian Refugee Rights over the past 3 months in Europe, Palestine, and Lebanon. We also provide a preliminary schedule of Campaign activities for the year 2000. 

The December issue of AL-MAJDAL contains: 

• Statement by Internally Displaced and Refugees in West Bank and Lebanon(International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People; 51st Anniversary of UN Resolution 194);
• Refugee Campaign Update (Europe, Palestine, Lebanon);
• EU Discussion Paper: Palestinian Refugee Rights;
• Update: Israeli-Palestinian Final Status Negotiations;
• Profile: Palestinian Refugees in Syria;
• Exiled after the Nakba: Palestinian Refugees from the Demilitarized Zones;
• Palestinians in Lebanon: Under the Hammer of the Syrian-Lebanese 
• Preparations for Negotiations with Israel;
• UNRWA Update: 1998-1999;
• New Opinion Polls on Refugees;
• The "Safe Passage";
• Bethlehem Checkpoint Update;
• Apartheid Scenario: If South Africa Had Taken the Road to Oslo ...
• Update: Jerusalem ID Card Confiscation;
• Oral History (Beit Jibrin) and Voices from Lebanon.

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