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Mira Al Mukarker Returns to Palestine
Excerpt from an article by Cliff Newell in The Lake Oswego Review,
June 18, 2009.
The friends of Mira Al Mukarker gave her the fondest of farewells.
They gathered in Wiegand Hall at Marylhurst University to pray, sing and dance for a young woman who soon will be returning to her hometown of Beit-jala near Bethlehem in Palestine. Their words came from the heart.
"Mira is someone dear to many of us," said Jenny Pixler, who helped organize the liturgy for the occasion. "She's a beautiful woman and a great soul."
Heather Mather, Al Mukarker's academic adviser, said, "We immediately understood that she was a gifted student. It didn’t take us long to realize that she is also a compassionate human being committed to increasing human rights awareness."
When Al Mukarker returns to Bethlehem she will be bringing her freshly minted MBA degree from Marylhurst (and a 4.0 grade average, plus a listing among Who’s Who Among University Students). Her ambitions for a career in international business are huge.
Yet her greatest goal is peace. Bringing peace to a land that knows no peace. When Al Mukarker returns to Palestine she will not be surrounded by loving friends but by 8-foot thick concrete walls, towers, checkpoints and soldiers. Because the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes on and on with no end in sight.