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...Harvard freshman, Tarazi joined a group of seniors in founding SAS and kept up his informal debates with classmates on Palestinian issues. He says some saw him as waging a private crusade or even as anti-Semitic. Sophomore year, he majored in Middle Eastern History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations...
...Tarazi spent the fall semester of 1987 studying in Cairo, where he says he realized Palestinians could count on little help from their Arab neighbors...
Administrators at the American University in Cairo treated Palestinian students as "controversial people who need to be silenced as much as possible," he says. And while many Egyptians were sympathetic to his cause, Tarazi says he also encountered prejudice similar to Western anti-Semitism from cab drivers and restaurant managers. In a dispute over a fare, one driver, meaning to call Tarazi greedy, said, "don't be such a Palestinian...
...Palestinian uprising that is still in progress began that November. Hearing it discussed constantly in Cairo, Tarazi expected public interest in the Palestinian cause would rise in the United States as well. He was disappointed onreturning home. "I realized, it's me: I have tomake people sympathetic," he says...
Another spur to Tarazi's activism was the newsthat a cousin had died in the uprising, beaten todeath by Israeli soldiers. He read about it inThe New York Times...