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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...organization’s website, the tour is advertised as the testimonies of four teenagers, but the fourth, Mohammed, was denied a visa by the United States Consulate. The organizer of the event, Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, explained simply, “They said it was because of his name...

Author: By Rimal A. Kacem | Title: A Picture of Palestine | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...overwhelmingly positive. One man looking at the photography, Said Ghorayeb, said, “I know what this is about. I am from the area, Beirut. This is great. This might be these kids’ only chance to be something other than fighters.” Maryam Monalisa Gharavi, a second-year graduate student in comparative literature who organized the event, lauded the fact that it gave Palestine a voice in the U.S. “In the U.S., the Palestinian experience is invisible. And when it is present, it is portrayed as destructive. The greatest thing about [Picture...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Palestinians Exhibit Photos of Camps | 4/12/2007 | See Source »

...interest in either. The “Freedom Concert’s” ties to off-campus pro-war organizations, and its own deafening silence on the question of invasion fails to avoid this very trap.Alireza Doostdar is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies. Maryam Monalisa Gharavi is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature and a member of Alliance for Justice in the Middle East...

Author: By Alireza Doostdar and Maryam M. Gharavi, S | Title: Giving ‘Freedom’ a Bad Name | 3/22/2006 | See Source »

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