Word: tarazis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Michael "Trig" Tarazi '89 is a person of contrasts: madcap humor and solemnity, nationalism and iconoclasm...
...Tarazi, seeming extremes combine in unexpected ways. Take the explanation of his nickname, for example. Why "Trig...
...largely out of a sense of embarrassment" over having an Arabic first name, he says. "Growing up Arab in America is not easy--much harder than growing up gay in America," says Tarazi, who has done both. He recalls seeing Arabs in movies and comic strips as cruel terrorists or wealthy sheiks--nothing he aspired to become...
...nickname has stuck, but the embarrassment has not. Tarazi now hopes to spend his life working for the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), most likely as a publicist in this country...
...Trig Tarazi, Society of Arab Students...