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Word: moloquia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1988-1988
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Many Palestinians are going back to the land. Nawal Rabi, 38, spends much of her day hacking out a garden behind her house in Jalazun. She is planting tomatoes, cucumbers and moloquia, an Arab green. With two brothers in jail and her father dead, Nawal struggles just to eat. In Sinjil, a West Bank village nearby, army roadblocks have cut off traffic for the past two months. Unable to drive to market, Hosneyah Khalil feeds her six children with the produce from her fields. She also has bought goats for milk. "We will show them we can live," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East Day by Day with the Intifadeh | 5/23/1988 | See Source »

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