Word: shehabuddin
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...Shehabuddin says she knew she was in the right, but she says she never expected her stance to provoke such hostility from even some of her closest friends. One, she recalls, pointed out than it was Hussein who had nearly killed her parents, and that forcing the Iraqis from Kuwait would allow her to return to her house...
...Shehabuddin didn't apologize for Hussein. But she did have an answer: "You just do not kill hundreds of thousands of people for my piano...
Unfortunately, she found, such simple answers weren't always enough, and the anger she encountered left quite an impression. After fellow Leverett residents hissed at her making an anti-war announcement in the dining hall one evening, Shehabuddin was so hurt she didn't return for weeks...
Still, even as the state of the world-- and her part of the world, in particular--seems in a permanent disarray, Shehabuddin remains an optimist...
...that's just what she intends to do. With a Pforzheimer fellowship, Shehabuddin plans to continue working for the lending organization she studied in her thesis. Then, it is on to graduate school in sociology or international relations, and, finally, back to native Bangladesh...