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...debate over Israel and the Palestinian territories has heated up recently on campuses, questions concerning the right to free speech have taken center stage. For students of Middle Eastern descent, ourselves included, the Constitution’s First Amendment may just be our last line of defense both on and off campuses in the post-Sept. 11 climate...
...France's double peine - a "double jeopardy" law allowing the deportation of foreign convicts once they've done their time. Mesbah's case has provoked renewed outcries for the abolition of double peine, which affects thousands of forgotten foreign convicts each year, most of them of North African descent. Mesbah, like so many others in his predicament, was raised, educated and spent most of his life in France but never obtained full citizenship. If he had been set free, he would have been forcibly returned to Algeria, a country whose culture and languages are not his own. In denying Mesbah...
Civil servants and government officials in Armenia will be eligible for this fellowship, in addition to individuals of Armenian descent who show leadership promise...
Manoukian, who is of Armenian descent and grew up in Lebanon, supports Armenian causes, education and the arts...
Armenia’s capital, Yerevan, has a special connection to Cambridge through the Cambridge-Yerevan Sister City Association. The two cities have been formally linked as sister cities since 1987. Many people of Armenian descent also live in other communities in the Greater Boston area...