Records of Dispossession
Subtitle: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Institute for Palestine Studies Series)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: December 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780231129787
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Multicultural studies; Political oppression & persecution; Property & real estate; Refugees; c 1945 to c 1960; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; Israel; Palestine; International Relations - General; Middle East - General; Political History; History / Middle East; Arab-Israeli conflict; Claims; Palestinian Arabs; Refugee property
First sentence: In 1948, during the first Arab-Israeli war, 726,000 Palestinian Arabs-one-half of the entire Arab population of Palestine-fled or were driven out of their homes in Palestine by Zionist forces.