"The final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a … agricultural legacy that continued to impact Syria and Lebanon post-independence. With this book, Williams offers the first …

Lebanon has entered its third year as a country hosting the highest number of Syrian refugees in the region. All … geographical areas with a high concentration of Syrian refugees in Lebanon share a similar protracted marginality, underdevelopment … areas of their settlement within Lebanon. Host-refugee relations also show a direct relationship to the variant geographical …

The socio-economic conditions of Palestinians in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon depend on various political and economic … premises as well as on the 'imaginary ethnic environment' in each country. In Lebanon Palestinian refugees seem to be the worst … living. In Syria, Palestinians enjoy almost the same rights, or rather their lack, as Syrian nationals. However, the …