In 1948, as the Nakba unfolded across Palestine, over 100,000 Palestinian refugees streamed into Lebanon — a country of barely 1.3 million people. This episode traces how that forced migration reshaped Lebanon's fragile sectarian balance, economy, and politics for decades to come. We follow the story of Yarmouk, a Palestinian refugee camp near Tyre, and the uneasy coexistence with local Shia communities. We explore how the Palestinian presence inflamed tensions with the Maronite establishment, who saw the newcomers as a demographic threat. We meet key figures like Musa Alami and his model farm project in the Beqaa Valley. And we examine the legal limbo of the 1951 Exclusion Decree, which barred Palestinians from most skilled professions and property ownership. This is the untold prelude to the civil wars and regional conflicts that would later tear Lebanon apart — a story of survival, resentment, and the long shadow of exile.
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