A Palestinian student from N.C. State University is charging three Guilford College football players with assault and ethnic intimidation after he says he was attacked in a weekend brawl that left him injured. WUNC reporter Lorne Matalon reports to Frank Stasio from Guilford’s campus on how this incident has affected the mood of students and staff at North Carolina’s only Quaker university.
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Israel pulled out of Gaza more than a year ago, but residents there say they are anything but free. Israel retains a tight rein on the border. Palestinian militants continue to direct attacks outward towards Israel, but fighting has also turned inward, as Fatah and Hamas struggle for power.
Laila El-Haddad is a Palestinian journalist who divides her time between Gaza and Durham, N.C. She was in Gaza City this December when violence broke out between the two factions. Dick Gordon talks with Laila about the prospect of civil war in Gaza on The Story. He also hears what it’s like to raise a child under occupation. Laila has a son, 2 ½ year old Yousuf, who is just now beginning to question what the fighting is all about.
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http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com/ (Laila El-Haddad’s weblog)
His brother and two cousins were shot and killed. Four brothers were injured. The family home was bulldozed with his mother inside. His father was jailed for twelve years. These are just some of Mohammed Omer’s family stories.
Mohammed is 22 and was born and raised in the Rafah refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.
He is a photojournalist, and he has been documenting his own life, and the lives of other Gazans, since 2002. Dick Gordon talks to Mohammed about growing up in one of the most dangerous places on earth on The Story.
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http://www.rafahtoday.org/ (Mohammed Omer’s weblog)
Chapel Hill resident Tariq Nasir left a successful career in finance to find his voice as a filmmaker. He began with his family’s story of displacement. The Nasirs were forced to leave their home in Palestine in 1948, when the State of Israel was formed, and again in 1968 during the Six-Day War. Host Frank Stasio speaks to Tariq Nasir about home, hope, belonging and new beginnings.
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http://www.belongingthefilm.com/