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...Palestinian territories, where she suffered a brain aneurysm last June. She had a gift for capturing the condition of societies, especially women, caught in bloody conflicts. I particularly recommend her multimedia piece on Palestinian rappers and her powerful first-person account of a riveting photo-essay from Gaza--both are available at time.com/boulat
...when he was Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001, was prepared to cut generous deals with Palestinian militants. The newly minted Barak is now wary of any negotiations with Palestinians and wants to impose harsher sanctions on the 1.5 million Palestinians who live under control of Hamas militants in Gaza. Both rivals are willing to wait until Olmert's troubles become so tangled that he falls without having to be pushed. With reporting by Aaron J. Klein/Jerusalem
From the outset, the program in Gaza, begun in 2006, was the most ambitious--and the one with the most potential for impact. The unemployed in that war-battered wedge of Palestine is by some counts 70% of the adult population. Mohammad Naja, a management consultant who runs the foundation's program there, says university students "learn theory, not practical application." To address this gap, foundation students undergo a crash course in business English, then a mini-M.B.A. boot camp devised by the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business that places them in real-life...
Even those skills are unlikely to yield jobs in Gaza's crushed economy, so graduates are instead promised posts in nearby countries with Consolidated Contractors Co., an Athens-based multinational that is among the largest builders in the Middle East. The program appealed instantly to CCC director Samer Khoury when he was approached by his friend Telhami on behalf of the foundation. "Eventually," says Khoury, a Palestinian who resides in Athens, "this new generation of skilled workers will return" to build the economy from within, but for now, their remittances from abroad are invaluable. So far, CCC has placed...
Rami Alshaikh, 24, learned of the program as he was finishing his accounting degree last year at the Islamic University of Gaza, also home to the foundation. He watched the unsuccessful job hunts of countless friends and feared that he wouldn't be able to find work. Having lost his father a few years ago to surgical complications, he has six siblings and a mother to support, so he enrolled in the Education for Employment program after graduation and promptly landed an accountant job for CCC in the U.A.E. He sends at least a third of his $1,500 monthly...