Rashidieh

Rashidieh

Rashidieh ( _ar. راشدية) is a Palestinian refugee camp south of Tyre in Lebanon.

As of 2003 there are 25, 580 registered refugees in the camp.

Further reading

* Robert Fisk: "Pity the nation: Lebanon at war." (Chapter 2: Mrs Zamzam in Rashidieh recall Umm al-Faraj)

ee also

*Palestinian refugee camps
*Samir El-Youssef; writer and critic, born in 1965 in Rashidieh

External links

* [http://www.un.org/unrwa/refugees/lebanon/rashidieh.html UN page on Rashidieh]


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