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Meanwhile, Shakir has received a citation in Arabic and traveled to the Middle East every summer, recruiting Palestinian students to Harvard, working for the prime minister’s office in Dubai, and researching in Egypt for her senior thesis. [CORRECTION APPENDED]
Sarafa, who is half-Iraqi and half-Palestinian, said he speaks only "kitchen Arabic," since his parents chose not to teach him the language for fear that he would not learn English well.
"I hope to raise my kids with some sense of an Iraqi identity and hope to be able to give them a little bit of Arabic, cook Iraqi food for them, tell them Iraqi jokes, tell them Iraqi stories, tell them about my parents," she said.
CORRECTION: The March 18 news article "Watercolor Memories" gave an incorrect location for a 2005 model United Nations conference, which was held in Cambridge and not New York City. The article also stated that Deena S. Shakir '08 has completed a citation in Arabic. Although the joint Social Studies and...
Another Shi'ite guerrilla fighter interviewed by TIME offered a similar account, though he considered his group nationalist rather than sectarian. Says Abu Mohammed of his trainers in Iran: "They all speak perfect Arabic with a Lebanese accent. But we found out when we asked that they are either Quds...