The word “refugee” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak in 2015. Today the opening carries none. 4 remain further down the article, where a reader arriving from a search result does not go.
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Machine-checked against the full current article on 2026-08-02. “refugee” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4.
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The opening as it read in 2015
Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935 in Birmingham, United Kingdom ) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon .1Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh , after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA from the American University of Beirut in 1970 and her PhD from University of Hull in 1994. Sayigh was a journalist with the Economist until 1970, when she left due to disgust with "the Economist's uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War ". During the 2006 Lebanon War , Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus.2
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The opening as it stood in 2020
Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935 in Birmingham, United Kingdom ) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon . Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh , after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA from the American University of Beirut in 1970 and her PhD from University of Hull in 1994. Sayigh was a journalist with the Economist until 1970, when she left due to disgust with "the Economist's uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War ". During the 2006 Lebanon War , Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
British-Palestinian journalist and writer (born 1935) Rosemary Sayigh (born 1935) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history. Sayigh is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly refugees from the Nakba who fled to Lebanon . Her son is fellow scholar Yezid Sayigh , after marrying Yusef Sayigh in 1953. She earned her MA from the American University of Beirut in 1970 and her PhD from University of Hull in 1994. Sayigh was a journalist with the Economist until 1970, when she left due to disgust with "the Economist's uncritical, pro-American position on the Vietnam War ". During the 2006 Lebanon War , Sayigh and her family were evacuated from their home in Beirut to Cyprus.
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British-Palestinian journalist and writer (born 1927) Rosemary Sayigh ( née : Boxer; born 1927) is a British-born journalist and scholar of Middle Eastern history.She is known for her works on the Palestinian people , particularly those forcibly displaced to Lebanon as a result of the Nakba .
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Today
“refugee” appeared 1 times in this article's opening at its peak. Today the opening has none; the body has 4. Read the current article and compare.
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Where the word went
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“refugee” now appears 3× under Academia, 53% of the way down the article
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