by many refugee crises talking about the palestinian refugee crisis or countries like jordan or lebanon etc and i think these memories hang very heavily over the heads of most people in the middle east. i just got back from linux and jordan and spent an extremely an interesting moving day outside of the refugee camp which over the course of three years has become the third or fourth largest city and in all of jordan. it has more than 100,000 people in it and it's incredible. my long-term prediction is that the refugees under different circumstances, these were temporary settlements and became permanent settlements is hard to see how something like the refugee camp does not go the same way. in other words as temporary city that looks like a shanty town town when a block in which it does has corrugated tin houses that basically consists of tens and plastic and how this in the course the next generation or two will become a major city north of jordan. i think the story is likely to play out across the middle east whether we are talking about turkey or or lebanon etc.. not all refugees are the