Enduring weekly incursions by both the Israeli army and Palestinian security forces, West Bank youth in a Palestinian refugee camp, Balata, turn to nihilistic role models far from the nationalist scene.
Erling Lorentzen Sogge
Erling Lorentzen Sogge is a postdoctoral researcher based at the University of Oslo. His research explores social movements among refugees, the internal dynamics of refugee camps, and the post-Oslo dynamics of the Palestinian national movement. He has conducted extensive field research among Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon and the West Bank, and is currently working on a monograph dealing with the modern political history of the 'Ayn al-Hilwe camp in South Lebanon.