Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Tarazi learned of his Palestinian background at 14, his first reaction was embarrassment. He thought immediately of "PLO, Yassir Arafat, every stereotype you've ever heard...
...grew up in a family that wanted nothing more than to forget," says Tarazi. His mother "felt that being Palestinian was like a disease, that you try not to give it to your children," he recalls. Tarazi thought for many years that his family was Arab simply because he spoke Arabic at home...
Learning about his background encouraged him to start telling the Palestinian side of the story to classmates at Andover. "Whether they agreed was not important," he says. "What's important was that they understood that there Was another side to the story...
...Andover grant to work with Palestinian refugees in Israel strengthened Tarazi's convictions further during his junior year...
...made the trip over his parents' objections. "Why do you want to go back?" they asked. "We brought you to the United States to get away--to give you an education." Tarazi says his father wanted only to raise a family without the pain that went with being Palestinian. "He felt like everything he had worked for had fallen on its face," Tarazi says...