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  • The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees

    07/11/2005 1:14:40 AM PDT · by anotherview · 3 replies · 277+ views
    AISH/The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 25 April 2005 | Semha Alwaya
    The Middle East's Forgotten Refugees by Semha AlwayaI was born in Iraq and my family survived the Farhud, the Arabic pogrom of 1941. In discussions about refugees in the Middle East, a major piece of the narrative is routinely omitted, and my life is part of the tapestry of what's missing. I am a Jew, and I, too, am a refugee. Some of my childhood was spent in a refugee camp in Israel (yes, Israel). And I am far from being alone. This experience is shared by hundreds of thousands of other indigenous Jewish Middle Easterners who share a similar...