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...child, Khalil recalls, her grandfather, rather than either of her parents, helped shape her aspirations. "My parents are both apolitical, but my grandfather is very political. And that's where my ambitions lie, in politics," Khalil says...
Accordingly, Khalil devoted much of her energy here to campus and Middle Eastern politics, and she hopes someday to become a major political figure. Three years ago, while on the Undergraduate Council, Khalil and several other students founded the Arab Students Association...
Former co-president of the Association Sammy S.Hassan '88, who has known Khalil since junior highschool in Saudi Arabia, credits her with givingthe fledgling group direction and leadership. Whenthe Association was applying for council grants,he says, Khalil, who was on the studentgovernment's finance committee, knew exactly whatto write to receive funding. "She knows how theUniversity runs," says Hassan, who like Khalil isa Palestinian who grew up in Saudi Arabia...
Last fall Khalil also founded the Arab-JewishDialogue, an unofficial student group, with thehead of Harvard's Zionist League, Daniel H. Nevins'89. She says the Dialogue represents asmall-scale effort of what should transpire in theMiddle-East. Until the Palestinians and Israelis"Break down misunderstandings, misconceptions andfears of the other side, then I don't thinkanything constructive can be achieved. Until thetwo sit down, there will be no real peace. This isnot a game. People are suffering and will continueto suffer until one side recognizes the other,"she says...
...dream, she says, is to become theambassador to Israel of a yet-unestablishedPalestinian state. While most observers doubt thatthe two sides will be reconciled in the nearfuture, Khalil says she believes "the Palestinianand Israeli peoples are ready for a settlement."She adds, "There's a deep bond between thesepeoples, because they lived for centuries inpeace. It's not a deep-rooted conflict, but apolitical one, caused by the clashing ofnationalisms...