May 4, 2007

For College Students in Gaza, Choices Are Few

By MATTHEW KALMAN

Israeli security measures have isolated Palestinians there from outside higher-education opportunities

In a basement lecture hall at Bethlehem University one recent afternoon, Nally Husari is conducting a practical class for her occupational-therapy students, showing them how to assess the abilities of a disabled girl in a wheelchair. The conditions are not ideal. The girl is nervous because of the strange surroundings.

And the lecture hall is completely empty.

Ms.

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