Description: An analysis of the right to reparation of Palestinian refugees under international law.
Brief description: Lena El-Malak is a technology and data privacy attorney, as well as an expert in public international law and refugee law. Prior to pivoting into a commercial legal career, she worked as a legal and development consultant and has published several reports and studies on issues related to the Middle East. She completed a doctoral thesis in public international law at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK.
Review Quotes:
"Deeply researched and compelling ... El-Malak's book is not only a work of legal scholarship; it is a reminder that justice requires naming the crime, exposing its mechanisms and refusing to accept dispossession as destiny." --Madhyamam
"This is a deeply researched and much-needed study of the international legal background surrounding to Palestinian refugee reparations. It makes a wonderful contribution to the growing literature not onlyl on reparations to Palestinian refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War but reparations more broadly by approaching the topic from a law and rights-based perspective. Scholars and diplomats dealing with the Arab-Israeli Conflict and other conflicts as well will benefit from its insights." --Michael R. Fischbach, Professor of History, Randolph-Macon College, Virginia, US "Richly researched and lucidly written, this book is a vital contribution to understanding an under-documented issue: the right of the Palestinian refugees to reparations for their individual and collective losses following the war of 1948. Anchored in international law, Lena El-Malak argues, convincingly, that a rights-based approach must be incorporated into a broader liberation movement that would bring peace with justice to the Middle East." --Michael Lynk, Professor Emeritus, Western University, Canada "What are the scope, content and avenues for reparation of Palestinian refugee losses under international law from 1948 onward? In this timely new book, Dr. Lena El-Malak provides answers to these pressing and foundational questions, without which a just peace in Palestine will continue to elude us." --Ardi Imseis, Associate Professor, Queen's University, Canada "Lena El-Malak's book "Stolen Nation," is well-written and documented and is an absolute must read. The discussion on the rights of Palestinians to reparations and return has been swept under the table for too long. Reparations and return are not a slogan to be thrown around and actual mechanisms must be put in place to make them a reality." --Miko Peled, Author of Injustice: The Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five (2017), USA