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Nature 445, 136 (11 January 2007) | doi:10.1038/445136b; Published online 10 January 2007

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Immigration policy forces researchers out of West Bank

Jim Giles

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Foreign nationals denied access to universities.

A few kilometres outside the West Bank city of Ramallah, not far from the rubble-strewn compound where Yasser Arafat lived for many years, lies the campus of Birzeit University. As elsewhere on the West Bank, Birzeit's students and staff have learnt to live with the disruption and casualties caused by the occupying Israeli military and armed Palestinian groups.