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KU Arab students fret as gulf crisis drags on
Kansan staff writer
By Yvonne Guzman
"I really wish my parents would leave Kuwait," said Ibrahim Elkhatib. Kuwait City, Kuwait, senior.
The media may have brought the people and politics of the Middle East closer to KU during the past eight weeks, but for some Arab students, difficulty in communicating with family members in Kuwait and Iraq has made home seem much farther away.
Elkahatt is half Palestinian and half Lebanese. He grew up in Kuwait, but he has been in Lawrence since 1980. When he was home he was in August 1889.
It is impossible to telephone his parents in Kuwait, he said.
He is able to telephone Lebanon, which was almost impossible before Iraq's Aut. 2 invasion of Kuwait
He calls Lebanon, where most of his family is, about once every two weeks. He was able to telephone his brother and nephew, who has rejoined his father in Kuwait.
Gerald Harris, director of foreign student services, said fewer than 25 KU students had parents in Kuwait.
The University cannot facilitate communication for students with their families, but they will defer tuition payments for students like Elkhatib, whose assets may be frozen in closed Kuwait banks to defer tuition payments. The University is considering allowing the same students to defer their tuition payments for next semester also.
"I'm not really sure what possibilities there are for long-term help," Harris said.
Elkhatib said the reason his parents and many other people had remained in Kuwait despite the threat of war and scarcity of food was that they did not want to lose their children. In Jordan, a common waiting place for refugees, are almost as bad as they are in Kuwait and Iraq.
Hamud Ghazali, KU graduate student from Egypt, said that he thought his niece probably was still in Kuwait because she and her husband did not want him to lose his job but that he was not sure.
Ghazali's niece returned to her home in Kuwait on Aug. 2, the day of the invasion. He has not been able to reach her by telephone since.
But communication is not completely cut off. Elkahit has received telephone calls from his uncles, who were unable to be contacted by telephone from Baghdad, Iraq.
Elkathat has received a few letters from his father, who asked people traveling from Kuwait to Jordan to mail letters. Similarly, Elkathat was able to back once by sending a letter with her on their way to Kuwait from Jordan.
Food in Kuwait is scarce. Elkhabib said. Most of what his family eats is canned food.
But Ekhtabit said he was not as worried as he was right after Iraq invaded Kuwait. He does not think war is as likely as it once was.
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