Haim Srebro
Haim Srebro is the 2022 recipient of the Raymond Milefsky Award from the International Boundaries Research Unit at Durham University and the chair of the Subcommittee on International Boundaries Settlement of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG).
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How a Line on a Map Fanned the Flames of a Middle Eastern Conflict
For centuries, Ghajar was a poor, remote village in the Ottoman Empire. But after World War I, French colonial cartographers drew a line on a map that had long-term implications for the villagers. Today, they live in political limbo, their village claimed by Syria and divided between Lebanon and Israel.