I Found a Treasure!

Last week I received several notices about Forced Migration Review's (FMR) most recent edition on Palestinian refugees. I never had the chance to have a look at it before today when I took a break to check that journal for the first time. It is a masterwork! One of the most comprehensive publication I've ever seen in my whole life tackling different aspects of the Palestinian refugees and their continuous suffering. 50+ pages out of a total of 71 pages are dedicated for this topic with 29 articles discussing a broad range of relevant issues including history, politics, occupation, health, refugee camps, house demolishings, civil society and so on. It is a must-read journal for everyone looking to educate themselves on the Palestinian cause in general, and on Palestinian refugees in particular.

Yet don't get me wrong. This is NOT the treasure I'm talking about. Browsing FMR's website, I got redirected to the publisher's online portal "Forced Migration Online"; Now this is the real gold mine. This portal is a world of information on human displacement of which Palestinian refugees is just one example.

Go to the first section "Regional resources" >> "Research Guides" and you will find five different and very detailed research guides on Palestinian refugees in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Go to "Thematic Resources" >> "Resource Summaries" and select "Palestinians", you'll get a list of resources under the theme "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" including documents, websites and relevant organisations.

Go to the "Digital Library" and search for the word "Palestinian" and you will get 1038 results which include all work and research papers related to the Palestinian refugees that you might have ever heard or thought about.

Go to "Web Catalogue" and search for the word "Palestinian" and you will get a plenty of selected web-based resources related to the Palestinian refugees. You can also suggest any other resources that you may know.

Go to "Organisations" and search for the word "Palestinian" and you find a comprehensive list of organisations whose activities are relevant to the Palestinian refugees.

Go to "Handbooks and guidelines" and you'll find very useful documents related to the refugees in general.

Go to "Working Papers" and you'll get a number of excellent working papers prepared by the Refugees Studies Centre, the publisher of both "Forced Migration Online" and "Forced Migration Review". A number of these are on the Palestinian refugees.

Isn't this a real treasure?!