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Students began their summer with a week-long seminar on the Harvard campus, where they heard from a “daily overload” of four or five speakers, many of whom spoke about their personal involvement in the Civil Rights movement, according to participant Najiba Akbar, a rising junior at Wellesley College...
...They were really able to convey their passion to us,” Akbar said...
...We’re seeing people operating on all different levels,” Akbar says...
...effective. In the second week of the current violence, rioters pelted police with stones at Jerusalem's Gate of the Tribes, which leads to the Temple Mount, after Friday prayers. A moustarabine unit of 10 officers, their faces shrouded by kaffiyehs, joined in the rioting with cries of "Allahu akbar!" (God is most great). At a signal, they threw percussion grenades and nabbed the leaders of the riot...
...Manger Square where, by prior negotiation, the muezzin of the mosque next door shortened his call to midday prayers so as not to disrupt the Pope too much. Still, the Pontiff seemed a bit startled when, smack between his homily and the rest of the service, the amplified Allahu Akbar (God is great) rang out. He then enjoyed his brief respite in the grotto before accompanying Arafat, who sometimes held his hand, to the nearby Deheisha refugee camp...