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Good morning again everyone.

As we continue to get a variety of views

on the Israel-Hamass War and the larger Israeli-Palestinian

conflict, with us now is Palestinian American journalist and activist Heba Jamal.

Born and raised here, a graduate of City College, she was the Salutatorian at C.C.N.Y.

Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership, the largest

school within City College. And while she was a student, she won a Comptroller Scott Stringer

Award for Education Activism in 2017 when Stringer was the city

controller and Heba worked for the Education Reform Group Integrate NYC.

She currently lives in Germany and writes a sub-stack newsletter

and freelance journalism and opinion pieces

for various publications.

Heba Jamal also has family in Gaza and personally knew the poet and professor of English literature

Raffa Fad Al-A-Rier who was recently among the many thousands killed there and got some news coverage just before

all arreir's killing habe jamael had interviewed and quoted him in an article on

the war that she wrote in the publication the new Arab

heba thank you very much for joining us. Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you so much for having me, Brian.

Can you share a little bit about yourself to start out in addition to what I said there in the intro.

If you went to city college, I'm guessing you grew up in New York City?

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