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Islamic clientelism: Hizbollah's patronage of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon

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This project seeks to analyse Hizbollah's (Party of God) patronage of camp-based Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. In post-war Lebanon (1990-2005), the living conditions of the Palestinian refugees have worsened and they now constitute a disenfranchised an d marginalised minority. During the same period, Hizbollah has emerged as a major political party and vocal supporter of the Palestinian's quest for civic rights as well as major foe of Israel. Deprived of civic and political rights (including the right t o vote), this project seeks to understand the nature of Hizbollah's patronage of a minority group unable to offer them electoral support. A major research question is therefore what characterises the transactional relationship between Hizbollah and the re fugees and, more concretely, what kind of tribute do the Palestinian refugees (and their political representatives) offer in return for Hizbollah's material and political support? This project is meant to complement two ongoing research projects on Palest inian refugees in Lebanon funded by the Research Council of Norway: the multi-disciplinary research project "Global Moments in the Levant" (2005-08) and the interdisciplinary project "The Poor and the Judiciary" (2005-07). Taken together these projects ai m to increase our knowledge of the plight of the Palestinian refugees' situation in Lebanon and to explicate Hizbollah's political agenda vis-à-vis the refugees, a topic neither widely studied nor understood.

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