Word: ghaida
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POSTERS TORN DOWN, signs removed, vocal arguments--all these would characterize responses to Abu-Ghaida's activism at Harvard. Even her mother was concerned about the stridency of her daughter's actions...
...encouraged me to keep a low profile," she says, explaining how her mother fears American support for Israel and nationalist fervor. As Abu-Ghaida speaks, sipping a water at Au Bon Pain's outdoor cafe, a man approaches wearing an Operation Desert Storm t-shirt and hawking "Support the Troops" decals...
...Ghaida's sophomore and junior years were punctuated by continued activism, long political talks at cafes and biochemistry coursework...
After her sophomore year, Abu-Ghaida visited Israel. Travelling as an Austrian citizen, she studied Hebrew at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "I wanted to see the land," she says...
...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...