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.

Showing Palestine Refugees that Americans Care

Spring 2024 / Q & A

The Cairo Review asks the UNRWA USA National Committee questions about its purpose, processes, and operations amid the existential crisis UNRWA is facing.

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 Funding is Burdened with Conditionality

Spring 2024 / Essays

The UN agency’s essential humanitarian role lies in the balance thanks to the political contingencies of its donors.

‘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

Rethinking Gaza’s Reconstruction

Summer 2019 / Essays

With living conditions in the Palestinian enclave fast approaching breaking point, anything short of a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding and reconstruction will not work

A Horrible Game Changer

Summer 2018 / Essays

The Trump administration’s decision to cut aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East or UNRWA may highlight a need for institutional reform. Nonetheless, the humanitarian crisis and political unrest resulting from such a decision far outweigh any benefits.