Position paper entitled “Trapped by Denial of Rights, Illusion of Statehood: The Case of the Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon”

The Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies has recently published a position paper, in collaboration  with Al-Shabaka on “Trapped by Denial of Rights, Illusion of Statehood: The Case of the Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon”, written by Jaber Suleiman. Which  discusses how The PLO/PA bid came at a time of growing struggle by the Palestinian community to secure recognition of their rights by the Lebanese government – rights neglected since they sought refuge there in 1948 – and to overcome their economic, institutional, and spatial marginalization.