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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DINA N. ABU-GHAIDA'S CHILDHOOD HISTORY reads like a travel...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Searching for an Identity and a Homeland | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

Throughout all her travels, she has forgotten neither her father, who died six years ago, nor her family's home, which now lies in Haifa, Israel. Dina N. Abu-Ghaida is Palestinian...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Searching for an Identity and a Homeland | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...lived in the neighborhood of Ras Beirut, a place that was "both Christian and Muslim." One day she was out playing hopskotch with her friends when she heard the rat-tat-tat sound of machine gun fire. The game was over--Dina's mother yelled to her from her porch to come inside...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Searching for an Identity and a Homeland | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...summer was one of tension in Israel. Abu-Ghaida was riding in a public bus when she heard that a Palestinian man had caused another bus elsewhere in the country to drive off the road. Speaking Hebrew and travelling as a foreign national, Dina--which is one of the most popular Israeli names--was able to see a side of Israelis that is invisible to most Palestinians...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Searching for an Identity and a Homeland | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

...short term, she is awaiting elections--both Israeli and Palestinian. The war, Dina says, may finish the political careers of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, leader of the rightwing Likud Party, and Palestinian Liberation Organization chair Yasser Arafat, now being questioned by many Palestinians for his handling of the Gulf Crisis. A change in leadership, she says, could bring relief to the Palestinian people...

Author: By Seth A. Gitell, | Title: Searching for an Identity and a Homeland | 6/6/1991 | See Source »

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