Content about Mahmoud Al-Batal
February 14, 2011
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< class="field-content">On the first day of the protests in Egypt, Jordan Bellquist spent an ordinary day at home with Mama, her Egyptian host parent.
Bellquist, a radio-television-film and Arabic senior and Arabic Flagship Program participant, knew there were protests in Alexandria, but everyone expected them to be peaceful.
February 13, 2010
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< class="field-content">In the hallway outside of a room in Texas State University’s LBJ Student Center, students moved in around gubernatorial candidate Farouk Shami on Wednesday night for a group picture. There, smiling wide in the center of the back row, stood Sama’an Ashrawi, a 19-year-old Middle Eastern studies sophomore at UT and a self-proclaimed Shami admirer.
