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Gaza to Turin: How a Novel Opened an Unexpected Path to Education

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Source: San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center

The story of how one young student in Gaza who wrote a novel as a last effort to to let the world know of his life under Israeli occupation and war, led to his and 50 other students being conducted through a humanitarian corridor to further their studies in Italy.

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