Forthcoming BADIL Publications


Survey of Palestinian Refugees and Internally Displaced Palestinians 2003
The Survey provides basic historic and current information on Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons. The Survey includes 6 chapters covering the historical circumstances of Palestinian displacement, population, legal status, socio-economic profile, international protection and assistance, and durable solutions. Available in English and Arabic. 200 pages. ISSN 1728-1679.
For advance orders contact, [email protected]

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition
Includes working papers submitted to the fourth annual meeting of the Global Palestine Right of Return Coalition held in London, November 2003. The publication also includes a summary of discussions and debate as well as the final statement issued by the Coalition. Arabic with English summaries.
For advance orders contact, [email protected].

Palestinian Refugee Children, International Protection and Durable Solutions. BADIL Information & Discussion Brief No. 10 (2004).
To order contact, [email protected].

Selected BADIL Publications

“Experiencing the Right of Return, Palestinian Refugees Visit Bosnia”
This 20 video documents a study visit of a delegation of Palestinian refugees to Bosnia-Herzegovina in June 2002. The delegation, comprised of refugees from Palestine/Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Europe traveled to Bosnia in order to understand: What was done and how? What didn’t work and why? What are the lessons for Palestinians and their struggle for the implementation of the right of return and real property restitution?
To order contact, [email protected]. Available in English and Arabic.

Al-Quds 1948: al-ahya’ al-‘arabiyah wa-masiruha fi harb 1948
Salim Tamari (ed.). Published by BADIL Resource Center and the Institute for Palestine Studies, 2002. ISBN 9953-9001-9-1.
To order contact IPS-Beirut, [email protected], or www.palestine-studies.org.

BADIL Hebrew Language Packet/The Right of Return
The Packet includes:
· Main Reader, ‘Palestinian Refugees:’ overview of the issue and demands of Palestinian refugees; law and principles guiding solutions to refugee problems; answers to frequently asked questions; obstacles to be tackled by a law- and rights-based solution (24 pages);
· Legal Brief, ‘Palestinian Refugees and their Right of Return, an International Law Analysis’ (16 pages);
· Executive Summary, ‘The Right of Return:’ Report of the Joint British Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry into Refugee Choice (28 pages; translation from the English original published in London, March 2002);
· Readers’ feedback sheet and background information about BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights.

The BADIL Hebrew-language Information Packet is availablefor NIS 30. For postal orders inside Israel, please send a check to Andalus Publishers, PO Box 53036, Tel Aviv 61530 ([email protected]).

BADIL Expert Forum Working Papers
A complete list of all working papers commissioned for the BADIL Expert Forum on Palestinian Refugees is available on the BADIL website. Papers address the relationship between international law and peacemaking, housing and property restitution for refugees, international protection, and obstacles to implementation of durable solutions for Palestinian refugees.
See, http://www.badil.org/Campaign/Expert_Forum.htm


Suggested Reading from other Publishers

Access Denied
Palestinian Land Rights in Israel
Hussein Abu Hussein and Fiona McKay

The struggle for land has been a key element of the conflict between Jews and Arabs in Palestine for the past hundred years. While international attention focuses on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, legally outside Israel's boundaries, there is another dimension to the land question altogether. Nearly one-fifth of Israel's population is Palestinian. This book examines how Israeli land policy today inhibits access to land for its own Arab citizens even within the 1948 boundaries of the state of Israel.
To order contact, Zed Books, www.zedbooks.demon.co.uk.

Beer Sheba and Gaza Map 1948
This map, produced by the Palestine Land Society, covers an area which has been largely unknown or misunderstood. It provides information 77 Bedouin clans in the Beer Sheba and Gaza area, including their location in 1948, their expulsion, their current place of refuge and their land claims. The map is based on travellers and military maps before WWI, British Mandate maps, papers of the Beer Sheba District Officer Aref al-Aref, information from Beer Sheba Societies in Gaza, Jordan and Israel, and personal interviews. Scale 1:120,000. Size: 70 x 100 cm.
To order the English map contact, [email protected]. Arabic, [email protected].

Returning Home: Housing and Property Restitution Rights of Refugees and Displaced Persons
Scott Leckie (ed.). Forward by Theo van Boven
This volume is a unique effort to cover the topic of the restitution of housing and property in light of lessons learned in the Balkans, South Africa, East Timor, and in a range of other countries that have made the shift from conflict to peace. Individual chapters by authors with direct experience dealing with housing and properyt restitution in particular contexts will bring into focus the legal and human rights aspects of this question. Several chapters deal with unresolved restitution cases, all of which will require resolution sooner or later, including in Georgia, Turkey, and for specific groups including Palestinian refuges, indigenous peoples and the internally displaced themselves. Housing and property restitution is now viewed as an essential element of post-conflict reconstruction. It is a primary means of reversing ‘ethnic cleansing’ and vital to securing a war-torn nation’s future stability. All parties involved in human rights, refugee assistance, post-conflict reconstruction and reconciliation, and property rights will find this volume to be an indispensable resource.
To order contact Transnational Publishers, Inc., [email protected] or www.transnationalpubs.com

Records of Dispossession, Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Michael R. Fischbach

From late 1947 through 1948, more than 726,000 Palestinians – about one-half the entire population – left their homes and villages. While some middle class refugees fled with liquid capital, the majority consisted of small-scale farmers whose worldly fortunes were the land, livestock, and crops they had left behind. For the first time this book tells the full story of how much property was left behind, what it was worth and how it was used by the fledgling state of Israel. It then traces the subsequent decades of diplomatic activity on the issue.
To order contact, www.columbia.edu/cu/cup.

The Politics of Denial, Israel and the Palestinian Refugee Problem
Nur Masalha
The aim of this book is to analyse Israeli policies towards the Palestinian refugees as they evolved from the 1948 catastrophe (or nakba) to the present. It is the first volume to look in detail at Israeli law and policy surrounding the refugee question. Drawing on extensive primary sources and previously classified archive material, Masalha discusses the 1948 exodus; Israeli resettlement schemes since 1948; Israeli approaches to compensation and restitution of property; Israeli refugee policies towards the internally displaced (‘present absentees’); and Israeli refugee policies during the Madrid and Oslo negotiations.
To order contact Pluto Press, www.plutobooks.com.

Transferring Best Practice
From 9-12 June 2004 the University of Exeter hosted a conference entitled, “Transferrring Best Practice: An International Workshop on the Comparative Study of Refugee Return Programmes with Reference to the Palestinian Context.
To read more about the conference and obtain copies of conference papers visit the University of Exeter, Politics Department website: www.ex.ac.uk/shipss/politics/events/palestine/