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IASFM 11 Conference: Plenary 2 Podcast

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

Photograph of UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd. Cairo, January 2008. Photo: Forced Migration Online/John Pilbeam.

The latest podcast in a series recorded at the bi-annual conference of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration (IASFM) is now available online.

The second plenary event began with the keynote address ‘Palestine refugees in the contemporary context: a view from UNRWA’ by Karen Abu Zayd, Commissioner General of UNRWA, followed by a panel discussion ‘The situation of refugees in the Middle East’ chaired by Maysa Ayoub, and including Helen Young, Patricia Fagen and Shahira Samy.