UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, November 8, 1993
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Palestine Heritage Week aims to dispel stereotypes
y Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
When most Americans read about Palestinians in their morning newspapers, they read about bombs and rock throwing.
Jamal Saeh, president of the General Union of Palestinian Students, wants to change that.
"Palestinians are a violent group of people?" said Saeh, graduate student from Bethlehem, occupied West Bank. "It's a stereotype."
Such stereotypes are part of the drive behind Palestine Heritage Week, which begins today. During the week, GUPS and supporters from the University of Kansas will put up displays and hold events to expose students to the culture behind the embattled group from the Middle East.
"We want to keep our culture alive," Saeh said. "There are a lot of factors working on usurping our culture, our light to our land, and our right to be free."
Speakers include Leila Diab, a Palestinian journalist who will speak on Arab-American women in the media, and Noam Chomsky, a controversial linguist and professor.
Baeh said Diab was invited because the media harshly stereotypes Palestinian women.
They don't identify Arab-American women as independent," he said. "They're stereotyped as barefoot and pregnant. It's the regular sexist thing, but it's worse for Arab-American women.
"We want to overcome the myths about Palestinians. Through celebrating the culture through the eyes of the woman, we will dispel stereotypes."
Michaela Hayes, Dallas senior and member of the Women's Student Union, said Diab's message needed to
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Speaker Lela Diab, a member of the United Nations Coordinating Committee, will present "Arab-American Women and the Media."
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be heard.
"The purpose of the Women's Student Union is to represent all women's concerns," she said. "This is an opportunity to help bring women's concerns, especially Arab-American women's concerns, out in the open."
The union is co-sponsoring the week's events.
Chomsky will speak on the use of language in the media. Saeh said Chomsky believed the media used words when referring to Middle-Eastern conflicts that slanted American perceptions.
it's very poignant for the Middle East because the whole idea of a conquest and a terroristic act is a linguistic thing," he said.
Saeh said he had heard no further protest about Chomsky, who was accused by some members of the Student Senate of being anti-Semitic when funding for his speech came up for discussion. The Senate passed the bill.
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