When I visited Shatila last week two topics dominated conversation: the carnage in Gaza and the deleterious effects of the construction boom underway in the camp. I’ll take them in turn, thou..
Diana Allan
Diana Allan is a Mellon Fellow in anthropology at the Society for the Humanities and the Department of Anthropology at Cornell University. She is the author ofRefugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (which has been shortlisted for the MEMO Book Prize). Accompanying photographs were contributed by Hisham Ghuzlan, a teacher at UNRWA and resident of Shatila.