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The research program "Humanitarian Policy Group" at the British research institute ODI (Overseas Development Institute) in London has recently published the first results of its project on "The global history of humanitarian action", focusing on the history of humanitarian action in the Middle East and North Africa.This study, edited by Eleanor Davey and Eva Svoboda, offers interesting insights into both the still unexplored history of humanitarianism in the Arab World and its important links with urgent questions of the present time.The publication can be found and downloaded at: http://www.odi.org/publications/8787-history-humanitarian-middle-east-mena-zakat-palestine-displacement-lebanon-yemen&#160;