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• Aruri, Naseer. Palestinian Refugees: The Right of Return. Pluto Press,. 2001.
• Nakba : Palestine, 1948, and the claims of memory / edited by Ahmad H. Sa’di & Lila Abu-Lughod. New York : Columbia University Press, 2007.
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• Davis, Rochelle A. Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced. Stanford University Press, Stanford, California, 2011. 
• Palestinian village histories Center for Palestine Studies | Columbia University.
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• Gavish, Dov, and Ruth Kark. “The Cadastral Mapping of Palestine, 1858-1928.” The Geographical Journal, vol. 159, no. 1, 1993, pp. 70–80.
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• Village histories Collection of titles recounting family histories, traditions, and the details of village life in the now destroyed Palestinian villages.

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