Birzeit University organized an online discussion session on the legal status and political reality of Palestinian refugees in the framework of international law. Students of the newly launched Master’s Program in International Migration and Refugee Studies participated in the discussion. The discussion was hosted by Francesca Albanese, Researcher at Georgetown University’s Institute for the Study of International Migration; Lex Tuckenberg, Senior Ethics Officer at UNRWA; who have recently published a new book “Palestinian refugees in international law,” in addition to Dr. Asem Khalil, Professor of Public and Constitutional Law at Birzeit University. The discussion reviewed the legal status of Palestinian refugees from the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in the early twentieth century to the Israeli occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem in 1967, the 1951 United Nations Convention on Refugees, and international frameworks that grant Palestinian refugees legal protection. To check the news, click here