Word: ghaida
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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...
During Abu-Ghaida's four years at Harvard, she has struggled both to refine her political views and to reconcile different facets of her identity. In Vienna, she identified herself strongly as a Palestinian. In the United States, she has become part of a crowd of international students, many of whom are European...
...Ghaida, Palestinian activism springs from an innate sense of duty. During her years at Harvard, events occured--the outbreak of the intifada, the incident at the Dome of the Rock, the Gulf War--which left her no choice but to respond...
...Ghaida's close friends, Salman Farmanfamaian '91-'92, describes her situation this way: "You can't help hearing the news. You can't help getting drawn in, even if you don't want...
...getting drawn in is easy for someone raised in exile communities in the Middle East and Europe for most of her life. Abu-Ghaida spent her early years in Beirut, Lebanon. That means having a heightened sense of both ethno-religious identity and the chaos that accompanies...