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    Children's Advocate Laila Al-Marayati
    profile of the cofounder and chair of KinderUSA
    Los Angeles is home to many activists who devote their lives to improving the lives of others in the Middle East, but few are more committed than Laila Al-Marayati. An obstetrician, a writer and a public speaker on Palestinian affairs, Dr. Al-Marayati is the mother of four children and the cofounder and chairperson of KinderUSA, a humanitarian organization that focuses on the well-being of Palestinian children in the West Bank, Gaza and Lebanon.
  • How to nominate someone for the James Irvine Leadership Award
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    The Festival of Fire, Chahar-Shanbeh Soori
    the harbinger of Nowruz, on the eve of the last Wednesday of the year
    The night is cold, forcing the crowd of families to press against the Zoroastrian fires. It seemed as if Nature purposefully stayed frigid that night, all too aware of the night's spiritual-cultural-historical-social significance for the Iranian people. Grandmothers and grandfathers are bundled up; the grandchildren of their children try to tough it out in mere t-shirts, mimicking the habits of their parents' youth; in their gaze are past memories revealing themselves, like the lines of a partially erased internal landscape drawn by their Being.
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    Happy Nowruz—Persian New Year!
    As the winter months come to an end, Mother Nature turns its frost-bitten face towards the spring sun, in hopes of feeling its warmth once again and witnessing the new life blooming everywhere. It is during this time, at the Spring equinox, that Persians all over the world celebrate Nowruz, the Persian New Year. Unlike the Christian New Year that occurs at the exact time every year, Nowruz is calculated according to the days, minutes, and seconds the earth takes to go once around the sun, exactly at the Spring equinox, therefore causing it to be at a different time each year (around March 20 or 21).
  • Rachel Corrie, the Death of an American Peace Activist
    The producer of an American anti-war play, "Sarah's War," talks about his motivations for revisiting the death of Rachel Corrie
    By now, many know the story. Nine years ago this month, a young American peace activist was killed in Rafah, Gaza by an IDF militarized Caterpillar D9 bulldozer.
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    One State or Two for Israelis, Palestinians?
    reflections on the March 2012 Harvard One State Conference
    I attended the One State Conference at Harvard University on March 3-4, 2012, and was encouraged to continue working to bring peace and prosperity to all the people who live between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan River. Nevertheless, I left the conference unsettled by several issues.
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    Ilan Pappé Returns to Lecture in Southern California
    Despite objections from Jewish right-wing group, CSUN and UCLA host one-stater
    In two talks in the Los Angeles area on February 20 and 24, 2012, Israeli revisionist historian Ilan Pappé, now Professor of History and Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies at Exeter University, called for a "new paradigm" for approaching the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The old paradigm-that of a "peace process" between equals, beginning in June 1967, after Israel occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip-has been shown to be a total failure, and is no longer useful in talking about the long-standing historical situation.
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    Jericho's Garden of Peace
    After Palestine's U.N. statehood bid, a garden of peace struggles to bloom in one of the oldest human habitations in the world
    Once again Palestinians are in the spotlight, but few people talk about the desertification and environmental crisis caused by the Occupation. Can the "green" issue unite disparate factions in the region? Hadani Ditmars reports on a unique garden where peace could bloom again.
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    Uncovering the Rachel Corrie Story
    a student intern attends the trial with the late activist's parents in Israel
    [Haifa, Israel] "The trial is this weekend," my boss said without feeling the need to fill in the details regarding which case she was referring to. She had assumed that, as an American female and empathizer for Palestinian rights, I would know about Rachel Corrie. The truth is, I should have known about Rachel Corrie, but before that moment I had never heard her name.
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    My New Life in Wadi Nisnas, Haifa
    a young American's first impressions living and working in Israel
    When I heard that I would have the opportunity to work abroad in Israel during my last months of college, I was thrilled! However, I would be lying to myself if I said I didn't have my doubts in the last couple of weeks before my trip or even during the 18 hour flight it took to get there. I was nervous about traveling to a new country where I didn't know anyone personally and where I couldn't speak either official language, Hebrew or Arabic.
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