In Targeting UNRWA, Israel Aims to Destroy the Right of Return

Spring 2024 / Essays

Hoping to capitalize on world sympathy after October 7, Israel tried to use its allies to defund and dismantle the UN relief agency.

Bridging Local and Global Assistance for Palestinian Refugees in Egypt

Spring 2024 / Essays

What happens to those who are beyond UNHCR and UNRWA’s scope of operation?

Navigating the Politics of Humanitarian Aid in Gaza

Spring 2024 / Essays

Despite Israeli efforts to destroy it, UNRWA remains an embodiment of international responsibility for the question of Palestinian refugees, and a reminder of their inalienable right of return.

UNRWA After October 7: Building a Comprehensive Response Framework for Palestinian Refugees

Spring 2024 / Essays

UNRWA’s future cannot be considered in isolation—a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder approach, with displacement issues at its center, is now necessary.

‘UNRWA is a Lifeline of Hope’—Foreword by Antonia De Meo

Spring 2024 / Essays

UNRWA’s Deputy Commissioner-General for Operational Support, Antonia De Meo, provides a foreword to the Cairo Review’s Spring 2024 issue dedicated to the agency amid the unprecedented challenges it faces

Framing the Partition Plan for Palestine

Winter 2022 / Essays

Many different opinions abound concerning Resolution 181, but one fact cannot be denied or overlooked: it was not a solution born out of the “free and sovereign” world states of the time

Thunderbolt Hitting the Land

May 10, 2020 / COVID-19: Global Crisis

An uncertain future looms as Palestine and Israel attempt to mitigate the onslaught of COVID-19.

Mobilizing Against Trump’s “Vision”

March 2, 2020 / Q & A

Former Palestinian Foreign Affairs Minister Nasser Alkidwa explains the ways Palestinians are contesting the Trump plan for peace and how the Trump deal caters only to extremists on the Israeli and American right