Tag: palestine
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Palestinian Cultural Club: building community through culture
In an effort to gather Palestinian students on campus and educate the UMD community about Palestinian culture, Sarah Edwan came up with the idea of the Palestinian Cultural Club, also known as PCC. Edwan, whose family hails from Gaza, founded the student organization last semester with the motto of building community through culture. “I wanted…
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Palestine’s struggle: A history and context of Israel’s occupation
Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed at least 46,600 Palestinians, over half of whom are women, children, and the elderly, over the past 15 months. Sources such as the Yale School of Public Health suggest the true death toll may be higher. A conservative estimate from The Lancet, a medical journal, indicates that over 186,000…
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