Return to Article Details Benny Morris: The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949. Cambridge University Press, 1987, 380 pp. and 'The Initial Absorption of the Palestinian Refugees in the Arab Host Countries, 1984-1949' in A. C. Bramwell (ed.): Refugees in the Age of Total War. London: Unwin & Hyman, 1988, 359 pp.