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Center for Migration and Refugee Studies, American University in Cairo Summer 2018 Short Course on Palestinian Refugees An important course for anyone interested in the region of the Middle East whose political turmoil cannot be fully understood without exploring the mother of all crisis: the Palestinian Exodus, the Nakba. The Palestinian Nakba in 1948 led to the uprooting of more than 700,000 Palestinians who constituted 60% of the population of Palestine. In this course, you will: - Understand the key themes shaping the debate on the Palestinian refugee crisis. - Explore the reasons behind the Palestinian exodus and the conflicting historical account. - Examine the historical, political, legal and ideological forces that have shaped Palestinian refugees turbulent circumstances. Instructed by Tahreer Arej. Tahreer is an activist Palestinian scholar who works at the American University in Cairo as Assistant Professor of Sociology. Tahreer received her PhD in Human and Community Development from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the USA. She accomplished her BA in Sociology and an MA in Gender, Development and Law from Birzeit University in Palestine. Deadline to apply: July 5th, 2018. For more info and how to apply, please visit the CMRS website: http://schools.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/cmrs/outreach/Pages/summer2018ShortCourses.aspx ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Note: The material contained in this communication comes to you from the Forced Migration Discussion List which is moderated by the Refugee Studies Centre (RSC), Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the RSC or the University. If you re-print, copy, archive or re-post this message please retain this disclaimer. Quotations or extracts should include attribution to the original sources. E-mail: [log in to unmask] Posting guidelines: http://www.forcedmigration.org/research-resources/discussion/forced-migration-discussion-list-posting-guidelines Subscribe/unsubscribe: http://tinyurl.com/fmlist-join-leave List Archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/forced-migration.html RSS: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?RSS&L=forced-migration Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/refugeestudies Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/refugeestudiescentre ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the FORCED-MIGRATION list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=FORCED-MIGRATION&A=1