{"id":4380,"date":"2009-12-17T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:05:11","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:05:11","slug":"epalestine-american-public-media-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2009\/12\/epalestine-american-public-media-one\/","title":{"rendered":"American Public Media: One Year Later in Gaza …a story from ground zero"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Public Media <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, December 16 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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One Year Later in Gaza <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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This month marks the one year anniversary of the beginning of the war in Gaza. While the conflict was short, the effects have been lasting. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Several times over the past year, Dick Gordon has spoken with Maha Mehanna. Maha lives in Gaza with her nephew Mohammed. They have access to basic supplies, but the closed border still means life has changed dramatically for them. Each month over the past year they have gained permission to cross the border into Israel to get medical treatment for Mohammed’s rare immune disease. They’ve faced 6 hour long waits and even stray bullets while trying to cross, but for Maha those trips are like a holiday – her only chance to see life on the outside. Maha and Mohammed talk with Dick about life behind one of the most heavily fortified borders in the world. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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LISTEN to the full interview at:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/thestory.org\/archive\/the_story_929_Maha_Mehanna.mp3\/view<\/u> <\/span> <\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

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YESTERDAY, my dear Israeli friend wrote this about Maha:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.peacexpeace.org\/content\/en\/yourstory\/write?memoir=379<\/u> <\/span> <\/span> <\/a><\/p>\n

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If anyone is in a position to offer this family assistance contact Maha directly at: maha2711@gmail.com<\/strong> or via Deb at: unleaving@gmail.com<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Mehanna family are dear friends of my own family and these kids deserve our continued support.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Another Palestinian family determined to live, determined to see a future that is still missing,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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American Public Media Wednesday, December 16 North Carolina Public Radio – WUNC One Year Later in Gaza This month marks the one year anniversary of the beginning of the war in Gaza. While the conflict was short, the effects have been lasting. Several times over the past year, Dick Gordon has spoken with Maha Mehanna. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"

Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of Just Vision<\/a> and The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n

He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n

A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n

Bahour is the co-editor of Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201cThe Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n

He tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}