Word: hanan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi has given the Palestinians a new face...
...PERFECT COINCIDENCE OF NEED AND ability: the Palestinians and Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi. That's why it is her face you see, her voice you hear speaking for her people, brilliantly recasting their cause as a cry for human justice. No longer can the world sum up -- and dismiss -- the Palestinians in the portrait of a stubble-bearded man wrapped in a kaffiyeh. This woman looks civilized, unthreatening, someone you'd like to invite to dinner, and she speaks with a compelling eloquence. With exquisite timing or luck or preternatural planning, she was there, this medieval-literature scholar, devoted mother, Christian...
Even before the Baker-Shoval meeting last week, the Palestinians had threatened to withdraw from the talks. But Hanan Mikhail-Ashrawi, spokeswoman for the Palestinian peace negotiators, made it clear that if the guarantees were conditioned to "eliminate entirely any possibility of these funds being subsidies to occupation and settlements," the Palestinians would continue to negotiate. They are unlikely to be satisfied by the proposal that Baker reportedly made. "It is permission to put 10,000 obstacles on the road to peace," says Saeb Erakat, a member of the Palestinian negotiating team...
...Hamad, a Palestinian, the project had special import. Born in Rafat, a now demolished Arab village located in what is Israel today, he says, "I am acutely aware that we Palestinians are misunderstood as a people." He tells of an elegant Palestinian woman, Hanan Bargouthi, who, having undergone a humiliating search at a London airport, observed bitterly, "I am Palestinian by birth, Jordanian by passport, Israeli because of the occupation and a terrorist according to security people...
...merger was proposed for "convenience for the students as much as anything else," Hanan said. "You can't expect people to know what they are going to specialize in so early in their sophomore year...