Word: tarazis
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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...
...that began to change when he enrolled at Andover. His parents stopped hiding the strength of their feelings about Palestine, and Tarazi grew more sensitive to comments like a reference to Arafat's "dishrag headdress" in a letter to the editor of his school paper...
Over his first Christmas vacation from Andover, Tarazi sat down with his parents and insisted on learning the family history. "It was like pulling teeth," he recalls...
...Andover grant to work with Palestinian refugees in Israel strengthened Tarazi's convictions further during his junior year...
...Tarazi, then 16, 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...