Word: hamidi
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...Yasmin Hamidi, 25, the war was all she experienced on her first trip to Lebanon. Beirut's international airport was bombed on the day she arrived. She was visiting with her uncle's family, in an apartment close to some of the heaviest bombing. "A couple of times we were bombed directly near our home - one bomb hit a truck that was parked near our apartment," Hamidi says. This bomb hit an hour before she was meant to report to the American embassy for evacuation. "When that happened, I thought, ?Well maybe I'm not supposed to leave Lebanon.'" Hamidi...
...Hamidi doesn't see how these attacks will benefit Israel. "With every bomb that was dropping, people were becoming more sympathetic [to Hizballah]," she says. "The hate, frustration and despair is growingfor a whole new generation of Lebanese children...
...That is a life 26-year-old Rangina Hamidi managed to escape. Her family left Kandahar in 1979, and after 10 years as refugees in Pakistan, ended up in the U.S. Her father became an accountant, and Rangina went to the prestigious University of Virginia. In her sophomore year, though, she started wearing a head scarf, puzzling her American friends and perturbing her liberal relatives. "I was very comfortable in America," she says, "but I always felt there was something missing." After the Taliban fell in 2001, Rangina said goodbye to her friends and family members, got on a plane...
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