When Israeli Bedouin Women Go to University

[Ha'aretz] Akiva Eldar - Last month Amal Abu-Saad, 36, became the second Israeli Bedouin woman to be awarded a Ph.D. - in genetics. Abu-Saad's master's thesis was on teaching biology to Bedouin schoolchildren using camels. "I thought they would be able to relate better to camels than to flies," she says.


2009-08-21 08:00:00

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