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Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. With front cover photograph of a young Palestinian boy in crafts class "UNRWA Pioneers in Teaching Handicrafts" and interior article entitled "Father of Handicrafts" (on James M. Milligan, who came to the Middle East in 1955 with the assignment of introducing handicrafts into the regular UNRWA-UNESCO school system in the Gaza Strip). The issue contains news and articles on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Rush Diplomas ("Several lucky students at UNRWA's vocational training Centre at Kalandia, near Jerusalem, Jordan, this July took their final exams early, and, diplomas in hand, left school and their classmates behind"); short news articles In Brief (including United States Government Pledges Half a Million Dollars for Vocational Training; The Director of UNRWA [John H. Davis] Visits Saudi Arabia; American Catholics Appoint Full-time Representative in Jordan; Over a Million Refugee Patients Treated by Lutherans; others); World Council of Churches Backs UNRWA Programme; Blind Refugee Sheikh Flies Free to Germany for Treatment (on Sheikh Fadel el Zre'i); Latest Statistics ("The total number of Palestine refugees registered with UNRWA had reached 1,151,024 as of 30 June 1961" with accompanying table showing Registered Refugees and Refugees Entitled to Rations in Jordan, Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria); The Palm-Tree and the Pine-Tree ("Mohammed Hamdan Abid and Khalil Tawfiq Imbark are two from a group of ten 14-year-old refugee boys in the Gaza Strip who have written their first letters to girls"). Staples lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. With front cover photograph showing the "tot who won the 'Cleanest Baby' award in the Health Education contest at Aqabat Jaber camp," and back cover photograph of the "schoolgirl who won the 'Cleanliness Award for her group." The issue contains news, articles, and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Director's Annual Report Published; news items In Brief (including Visitors; A Million Visitors View UNRWA at Turin; Uniforms for the Deaf and Dumb; others); Running Water Makes a Model Home ("How can one make a 'Model Home' out of a bare, one-room refugee hut?"); The Pontifical Mission for Palestine - Twelve Years of Refugee Aid). Innermost staples age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1961
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. With front cover photograph of a "Refugee Mother and Child at an Experimental Health Centre." The issue contains news, articles, and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: A Christmas Reunion? ("If 72-year-old Nicola Musa Salameh from Bethlehem has a Christmas present this year, he will receive it by the Mandelbaum Gate. The Mandelbaum Gate, on the outskirts of the 'Old' Jerusalem, is the only official border crossing between Israel and Jordan"); short news items In Brief (including Visitors [featuring Senators Hubert Humphrey, Congressman William T. Cahill, Mr. R.A.D. Ford, and Hugh Downs]; Contributions from the Government of Kuwait; others); UNRWA Vocational Training Centre Opens in Damascus; UNRWA to Release Colour Film; World Refugee Gift from Norway; Experiment in Saving Lives (with photograph of ill refugee child: "UNRWA, this past summer, introduced to the Middle East a new method to combat the season's number one infant killer - infantile diarrhea"); New Look in the Camps Round the World's Oldest City (with photos of Aqabat Jaber, just outside Jericho); The Last Flight of the UNRWA Plane.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 12 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: lead article There Is Still Time to 'Adopt' (on the UNRWA vocational and teaching training centres throughout the Middle East involving hundreds of young Palestine refugee men and women who need financial assistance, with cover photo of "Mohammed" and ten interior photos, three of them young men also involved in the program); list of Vocational Training Centres (in the Gaza Strip, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syrian Arab Republic).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special Issue for Europe. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Message From the Director of UNRWA (John H. Davis); European Contributions to UNRWA in World Refugee Year (with table of Contributions by Country and where the funds are earmarked for); British World Refugee Year Donation Used for New UNRWA Vocational Training Centre in Damascus; France Grants Scholarships to Young Refugees; The Scandinavian Soldiers of the United Nations Give Presents to the Children of Gaza; Swedish Gift Helps to Train Refugee Nurses; much more.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: front cover illustration showing a portrait of a young refugee girl painted by another refugee entitled "Thinking"; Increased Contributions from Switzerland; news items In Brief (including Hugh Downs Appointed Special Consultant to UNRWA; Commissioner-General Visits Kuwait; Contributions; New Sport for Refugees - softball; others); From Dust to Canvas (on young artist Shafiq Radwan, a refugee living in the Gaza Strip); A Ray of Light in a World of Darkness ("A ray of light will soon shine into the dark world that engulfs the blind refugees of Gaza"); Clothes Might Have Made the Man (on clothing distribution to refugees, with two photos, one described "This little boy's rags and tatters were his only clothes when he came to the distribution centre for more"); Executive Committee of World Council of Churches Passes Resolution Supporting UNRWA (with text of resolution).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special issue devoted entirely to the subject of teacher training and vocational training for refugee girls. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Well-illustrated with photos, the contents of this special issue are: photos of three young refugee women ("These girls are members of a new generation in the Middle East" with profile of Saud Massad); The Scholarship Plan - Facts and Figures; Knowledge Among the Olives ("In the treeless kingdom of Jordan, every tree is an item of value, revered by the people and protected by the government. The site chosen for the UNRWA Girls' Training Centre at Ramallah was a terraced olive grove, on the summit of a hill overlooking the town" with four photos); Why Vocational Training for Girls?; A New Role for Refugee Girls.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo showing one of the first graduates from UNRWA's men's teacher training centre admiring his new diploma; Increased Governmental Support for UNRWA's Work; news items In Brief (including Willard Jones Retires; Visitors - including Dr. Ralph Bunche, with photo); Contributions; Refugee Stamp Plan Report; First Graduation Ceremony at UNRWA Teacher Training Centre (in Ramallah, Jordan); A Warm Heart and a Cold Climate ("Moussa Zaki Nofal knows Switzerland as a country with a cold climate and a warm heart. For Moussa is one of the 80 young Palestine refugees who are receiving vocational training with the help of a technical assistance grant of $80,000 from the Government of Switzerland"); Arab Contributions to Refugee Aid (with a table of aid given by Arab countries to the Palestine refugees from 1948-1961).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo showing a panoramic view of the Siblin Vocational Training Centre, which opened that month, and one of the first trainees at the centre at work in the fitter/machinist workshop; Commissioner-General's Annual Report Issued; news items In Brief (including Commissioner-General [Dr. John H. Davis] in New York; UNRWA Film ["Tomorrow Begins Today"] Shown at Festival; Visitors - including Viscount and Lady Astor, with photo; Donations); First "International" Refugee Sports Competition; The Maple and the Cedar ("The maple and the cedar, the national symbols of two countries half a world apart - Canada and Lebanon - now stand side by side as evidence of the international cooperation which resulted in the opening early this month of the first UNRWA vocational training centre in Lebanon"); New Training Centre to Be Built With Swedish Donation.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1962
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special Issue: Vocational Training - A Progress Report. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 28 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special issue on Vocational Training - A Progress report, well-illustrated with photographs, with full-page map of UNRWA Training Centres, and containing the following topics: Capacity, Enrollment, and Graduation Rate, 1950-1964 (chart); One "Extra" Centre; The Scholarship Programme; UNRWA-Subsidized Training Programmes; Endorsement of UNRWA's Training Programme; Kalandia Vocational Training Centre, Jordan; Gaza Vocational Training Centre, the Gaza Strip; Wadi Seer Vocational Training Centre, Jordan; Teacher Training Centre for Men, Ramallah, Jordan; Teacher Training and Vocational Training Centre for Girls, Ramallah, Jordan; Siblin Vocational Training Centre, Lebanon; Damascus Vocational Training Centre, Syrian Arab Republic; Beit Hanoun Agricultural Training Centre, the Gaza Strip; Homs Teacher Training Centre, Syrian Arab Republic; Khan Yunis Training Centre, the Gaza Strip; Siblin Technical and Teacher Training Institute, Lebanon.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of young Fatmeh Abdallah with her first doll (with accompanying article); UNRWA's Mandate Extended [United Nations General Assembly Resolution (1856 (XVII))] (with text of Resolution); Commissioner-General's Statement (Dr. John H. Davis); news items In Brief (including Dr. Davis Returns to Beirut; Visitors; Donations); 25 Governments Pledge Funds for 1963; Sale of LP Record ["All-Star Festival"] to Aid Refugees; From Camp to Campus.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special Issue on UNRWA and the Freedom from Hunger Campaign. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special issue on UNRWA and the Freedom from Hunger Campaign (with topics I. The Projects - with subtopics UNRWA FFHC Projects; Vocational Courses Aid Agriculture; Auto Mechanics Aid the Farmer; Better Use of Food Resources; and II. The Cost, the Pledges, and the Need). The contents also include: news items In Brief (including Visitors; UNRWA to be Discussed at Seminar; Donations); UNRWA to Release New Documentary Film ("Your Friend, Omar"); Huglo's Two Schools ("The little island of Huglo, just off the coast of Norway, has about 200 inhabitants, one shop, and two schools. One school is situated in the centre of the island, and has about 30 pupils. The other school is almost 3,000 miles away, and is attended by 377 young Palestine refugee girls").
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special Issue on Jordan. Offered is issue No. 25 of "Palestine Refugees Today: An UNRWA Newsletter" (April-May 1963) published by The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special Issue on Jordan, with topics Jordan: The Land; Before 1948; During 1948; The Economic Situation; Jordan Today; UNRWA in Jordan; The Refugees; Shelter; Rations; Supplementary Feeding; Education; Vocational Training; Health; Welfare. With full-page map of Jordan showing the location of UNRWA Camps; UNRWA Training Centres; Cities and Towns; Demarcation Line; and International Frontier.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo showing student nurse Fadwa Rayan, shortly before graduation day, with accompanying article "Graduation Day for Fadwa"; news items In Brief (including Visitors; Donations); New Vocational Training Booklet Published by UNRWA; Letter from the White House ("One of Souraya Zacharia's most cherished possessions is a letter from the White House, Washington. Miss Zacharia, a young refugee woman from Jordan who now lives in Lebanon, makes exquisite dolls in authentic costume as a hobby. Last Christmas, she sent one as a gift to Caroline, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy of the United States"); Oxfam [Oxford Committee for Famine Relief] Comes of Age; Living Like (Lucky) Refugees ("Three Americans and one Malayan on the staff of the Agency spend 24 hours a day living like refugees. The four are the first voluntary workers to join the Agency on a full-time basis, as associate staff members" - with photos of Susan Sneeden and Blaine Leverknight).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: two front cover photos of UNRWA's Littlest School with accompanying article ("The children in UNRWA's littlest school go to class in their pyjamas. And after class many of them trot right back to bed. The school is a tiny one-room building in the middle of a hospital. The pupils, ranging in age from six to ten, all have tuberculosis"); Commissioner-General of UNRWA [Dr. John H. Davis] Announces Resignation; news items In Brief (including Visitors and Donations); Gaza's First Hay-Stack; The Clinic That Grew From a Christmas Gift ("Canadian troops in the Gaza Strip had little idea of what they were starting when they decided to give a Christmas gift to the refugees in 1961. The troops, members of the Canadian contingent of the United Nations Emergency Force, gave $6,000 to UNRWA to build a maternity centre at Khan Yunis camp"); CORSO Brings Aid from Afar (on the New Zealand Council of Organizations for Relief Service Overseas).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1963
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo "Refugee Trainees Lay Wreath on Grave of Dag Hammarskjold in Sweden"; Commissioner-General's [Dr. John H. Davis] Annual Report Issued (with topics The Past Year Reviewed; Financial Needs; Plans for Present Mandate Period); news items In Brief (including Commissioner-General Leaves for UN General Assembly; Eight UNRWA Scholars on Dean's Honour List; Visitors; Donations); Top Basketball Coach Visits Gaza (Salvatore Verderame); Commissioner-General's Statement to ICVA Conference (International Council of Voluntary Agencies); Trainees Return from Sweden; Latest Statistics (registered refugees).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of Dr. John H. Davis bidding farewell to refugee leaders in the Gaza Strip; General Assembly Passes Resolution on UNRWA (Resolution 1912 (XVIII)) (with text of Resolution); Mr. Laurence Michelmore Assumes Duties of Commissioner-General of UNRWA (with photo of Dr. Davis and Mr. Michelmore); news items In Brief (including Dr. Davis Bids Farewell to UNRWA; Donations); Government Pledges Indicate Support of UNRWA's Work; Skill + Tools = Work (with profiles of three young refugee men); A Christmas Gift for Hajji (Fatmeh Hassan); ICVA [International Council of Voluntary Agencies] Supports UNRWA. Staples very lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover picture of Mahmoud Musa as he clears the irrigation ditches on the farm that is now partly his (with accompanying article Progress in the Jordan Valley); Pope Paul VI Praises Work of UNRWA (with photo of Laurence Michelmore with His Holiness Pope Paul VI); news items In Brief (including Mr. Michelmore Arrives in Beirut; Visitors; Donations); Former Commissioner-General [Dr. John H. Davis] Honoured; Increased Enrollment in UNRWA Schools (with table); Scouting in the Camps (Boy Scouts). Staples very lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Gifts With a Bonus (with two front cover photographs: "Twelve cows, gifts from the Government of Switzerland to UNRWA, arrived in March at the Agency's Beit Hanoun Agricultural Training Centre in the Gaza Strip bearing gifts of their own. At the end of May two of the cows had presented their gifts - two calves. The other ten cows are expected to calve soon, almost doubling the size of the herd"); news items In Brief (including Commissioner-General's European Mission; Young Refugees Train in Switzerland; Donations); A First-Hand View ("Many visitors to the Middle East during the past few weeks have returned home with first-hand impressions of the plight of the Palestinian refugees and of UNRWA's work"); Today's Methods for Tomorrow's Wives - Thanks to Sweden ("Most wives and mothers in the refugee camps of the Gaza Strip go about their household tasks of preparing the day's food and caring for their children in much the same way as did their mothers and their grandmothers before them. But many of their daughters will abandon the often outdated traditions of the past in favour of the methods of the present, thanks largely to a health and education project being initiated by UNRWA"). Staples lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special Issue: Accent on Youth. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Special edition entitled Accent on Youth "devoted to the Youth Activities Programme for Arab refugees. It is dedicated to the World Alliance of YMCA's, whose invaluable advice, generous financial assistance, and active participation have done so much to make the programme a beneficial force in the life of the refugee community" (from Laurence Michelmore's forward). Well-illustrated with photos, topics include: YMCA Leadership Training Programme; Youth Activity Centres; Scouting; Boys' Programme. Staples very lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: lead article Record Number of Trainees Graduate (with cover photo of a refugee girl receiving her diploma at the UNRWA Ramallah Girls' Training Centre in Jordan); news items In Brief (including Visitors; Donations); UNRWA Officials Receive Norwegian Awards; Aid from the Men in Blue Berets (on Harbah Abu Sabat); Community Service Stressed in Leadership Training Courses.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Special issue on Voluntary Agency Assistance to the Palestine Refugees. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. This special issue on Voluntary Agency Assistance to the Palestine Refugees includes the following contents: Message from the Commissioner-General of UNRWA [Laurence Michelmore]; Introduction; Voluntary Agencies Active in the Field (with profiles of The American Friends of the Middle East; Catholic Relief Services; The Commonwealth Save the Children Fund; Cooperative for American Relief Everywhere; The Lutheran World Federation; The Mennonite Central Committee; The Near East Council of Churches Committee for Refugee Work; The Pontifical Mission for Palestine; Southern Baptist Mission; The Young Men's Christian Association; The Young Women's Christian Association); Voluntary Agencies Assisting the Refugees Through UNRWA (Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, International Organizations).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1964
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photograph and lead feature The Other Bethlehem ("But there is another Bethlehem, one that few of the pilgrims or tourists will see"); Continuing Needs of Refugees Emphasized in Annual Report (with topics The Situation of the Refugees; The Past Year Reviewed; The Future Role of UNRWA; Financial Situation); news items In Brief (including Visitors and Donations); Harbah's New Legs (on Harbah Abu Sabat from the Khan Younis camp in the Gaza Strip); Knitting New Lives ("Gloria Burbara is a refugee who has knitted a new life for herself and her family"). Staples lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1965
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover feature For Refugee Women: New Horizons (with cover photo of In'am Abu Hajar - "one of the many refugee women and girls for whom UNRWA's Women's Activities Programme is opening new horizons"); An Appeal (for funds for UNRWA's Women's Activities Programme); 1965: International Cooperation Year; news items In Brief (including Visitors and Donations); Assistance to the Handicapped ("Abdul Karim Hassouneh is a 12-year-old refugee boy whose life was changed by a rumor. Some months ago, Abdul Karim, crippled in childhood by polio, limped up to an UNRWA clinic in Jerusalem and asked if it was the place to which crippled children were to report").
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1965
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of a teacher in Tripoli, Lebanon, putting into practice some of the teaching methods he has learned from the UNRWA-UNESCO Institute of Education course; UNRWA-UNESCO Institute of Education Shows First Results; The First of the "Ramallah Girls" ("An 18-year-old Palestinian refugee girl [In'am Ahmed Madbouh] has introduced high fashion to the ancient town of Hebron in Jordan. She has opened the town's first ladies' hairdressing salon"); news items In Brief (including Ramallah "Home Mother" Studies in Britain; Jordan Honours Lutherans; Six Canadian Volunteers Arrive; Visitors; Donations); Belgian Stamps Aid Palestine Refugees. Staples lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1965
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo showing Halima Hallak and her classmates learning to cook, as part of the new home economics programme introduced recently in UNRWA girls' school in the Gaza Strip; Home Economics Introduced in Gaza; First Teachers Graduate from Siblin Institute; A Roof Over Their Heads ("When the winter rains come this year, 500 more refugee families in Jordan will have a solid roof over their heads - some of them for the first time in many years"): Danish Government Makes $100,000 Technical Assistance Grant; news items In Brief (including Slides Set on Ramallah Issued; International Piano Festival - UNRWA Receives $16,000 - Record Presented to the President of Lebanon; Visitors; Donations); International Work Camp Held in Gaza. Staples lightly age-rusted.
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1965
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo of Khalid Ayyoub, a graduate from UNRWA's Damascus Vocational Training Center in Syria, working in a heavy electrical equipment factory in Norrkoping, Sweden; Commissioner-General's [Mr. Laurence Michelmore] Report Reveals Critical Financial Situation (with topics The Financial Crisis; The Situation of the Refugees; The Problem of Ration Roll Rectification); "Swedish" Health Center Opened in Gaza (with two photos, one of Governor-General of the Gaza Strip, General Yousef el Agroudi, officially opening the Centre); news items In Brief (including Visitors and Donations); On-the-Job Training for Young Refugees ("Three groups of young refugees - all graduates from UNRWA training centers - flew to Europe in September for a year of on-the-job training in industry"); Come With Me to Sweden by Suleimen Farran (written by one of the young refugees who spent a year training and working in Sweden under a joint program of UNRWA and the Swedish International Development Authority - SIDA).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1965
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photo and inside feature Winter Comes - and Nawal is Alive ("Nawal Deeb Mohammad's first summer was almost her last. Now a robust, healthy 10-month-old baby, she plays happily in the yard of her family' mud-brick hut in Aqabat Jaber refugee camp in the Jordan Valley, near the ancient city of Jericho. A few months ago, Nawal was little more than a skeleton - wasted, shrunken, and fast approaching death. She was a victim of gastro-enteritis, the number-one baby-killer among the refugee population"); Commissioner-General's Statement to the Special Political Committee (Mr. Laurence Michelmore); "Swedish" Fishing Village Built in Gaza; Parcels from Home - For Needy Refugees; news items In Brief (including Visitors and Donations).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1966
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: Finnish Association for Aid to Refugees Established ("Therese Asfour, the 18-year-old refugee pictured here and on the cover, has the distinction of being the first refugee to be assisted through a newly-established Finnish organization dedicated to aiding the world's refugees. Therese is a trainee at UNRWA's Ramallah Girls' Training Center in Jordan. Her first year of training in the secretarial course is being financed by a scholarship made available through the Finnish Association for Aid to Refugees, which was established in December 1965"); Pledging Conference Reveals Critical Deficit; General Assembly Adopts Resolution on Palestine Refugees (extending the mandate of UNRWA for three years, with text); Belgian Donations Announced; news items In Brief (including King Hussein Visits Kalandia Training Center; United Nations Day 1966 Dedicated to Refugees; UNRWA Graduates Assist in Saudi Arabia Telephone Project; Donations); Year-End Registration Figures (table of registered refugees, and those registered for rations, in Jordan, the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, and Syria).
Published by UNRWA, UNESCO Building, Beirut, Lebanon, 1966
Seller: Bloomsbury Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Magazine / Periodical First Edition
Magazine. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A left-stapled Newsweek-size magazine measuring 8-1/4" by 10-3/4" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. The issue contains news, articles and photographs on the present conditions of the Palestine refugee camps, UNRA's efforts to provide relief and outreach (with immediate goals of providing food, health services, education, training, and shelter for the refugees and long-term goals of assisting the refugees to become self-supporting), and personal stories and profiles of the refugees who live there. Contents include: cover photos and internal feature with photos entitled "Jerusalem: City of Easter Pilgrimage - City of 40,000 Refugees"; Efforts to Reduce Deficit Show Results; Arab Prime Ministers Pass Resolution on Arab Refugees; Lutheran World Federation Supports UNRWA's Appeal for Funds; Co-Education Comes to Gaza Training Center; Viscount Astor (short memorial); OXFAM [Oxford Committee for Famine Relief] Donation Assists Refugee Victims of Jordan Flood Disaster; "International Piano Festival" Presented to King Hussein (with photo); news items In Brief (including Visitors and Donations); On-the-Job Training: The Chance of a Lifetime (for refugees in Esslingen in Germany).