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More on Foreign Affairs from The Atlantic Monthly.

Contents | November 2006

From the archives:

"The Arabs of Palestine" (October 1961)
How the Arab refugees and the Arab Israelis live, and what they say about themselves, their past and their future. By Martha Gellhorn.

From Atlantic Unbound:

"War's Forgotten Faces" (December 18, 2001)
Larry Thompson of Refugees International describes what life is like for the refugees of conflicts, old and new, in Afghanistan.

The Atlantic Monthly | November 2006

The Agenda

The World In Numbers

Carriers of Conflict

(page 1 of 2)

For a preview of future instability and war in the Middle East, watch where Iraqi refugees are going

by Daniel L. Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack

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Related graphic:

"An Iraqi Exodus"
Iraqi refugees residing in neighboring countries as of September 2006. [PDF format.]

efugees from Iraq are on the move. More than 1.2 million of them have already fled the country, and recent anecdotal reports—a many-fold increase in the buses traveling daily from Baghdad to Jordan this summer, for example—suggest that the tempo of the exodus is increasing. If the violence in Iraq spreads, the number of Iraqis who flee to neighboring states may well triple. And if the nascent civil war in Iraq unfolds the way most other recent civil wars have, the refugees will remain outside Iraq for years.

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Daniel L. Byman is the director of Georgetown University’s Center for Peace and Security Studies. Kenneth M. Pollack is the director of research at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution.