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Lora Gordon is a 23-year-old Jewish American from Pittsburgh, PA.  She studied art and anthropology at Grinnell College in Iowa for two years and then moved to the Middle East to explore her role in that increasingly volatile situation.  She first traveled to Israel on the Birthright program but quickly realized her role was in Palestine. In March 2003, (shortly after the death of Rachel Corrie), she moved to Rafah, Gaza Strip, where she spent a year coordinating for the International Solidarity Movement and did a three-month speaking tour across the US. After a semester abroad working with Association Najdeh in Shatila Refugee Camp in Beirut, Lebanon, she graduated with a degree in Middle East Studies from Skidmore College's University Without Walls.  Lora is proficient in French and Arabic.  Her writing has been published by the Electronic Intifada, Peace Under Fire, and Al-Awda, and she’s appeared in several documentaries. She has written a manuscript about her experiences in Gaza edited by Susanna Lea Associates, and a thesis on youth in Lebanon.  She now contributes weekly pieces to RustBelt Radio, Pittsburgh's Indymedia radio show, and edits the International Middle East Media Center's weekly report, This Week in Palestine. She will be managing the Resistance to Empire Tour through the Mid-West, Jan 28-March 16.

Lora's Thesis:

Border Crossing: Redrawing Lebanon's Ethnic Map

Lora's Rafah Diaries:

10 January 2004
And the World Sleeps

20 December 2003
When boredom feels like slow death, what is left to lose?

10 December 2003
Redemption in Gaza

8 December 2003
Broken Crystal

1 December 2003
Tension and Depression

17 November 2003
The Monotony of Chaos

14 October 2003
Eyewitness Account of the Invasion of Rafah

10 October 2003
The Mirror of Fire and Tears

9 September 2003
Fragments of Rafah

25 August 2003
Vacationing in the Gaza Strip

18 August 2003
At the End of a Ceasefire That Never Was

30 June 2003
Gaza's Abu Holy Checkpoint Dismantled

26 June 2003
Israel's June 25th Incursion into Rafah's Hay Salaam District

19 June 2003
A Quiet Night on Rafah's Sliding Scale

19 June 2003
The ghosts of Rafah

6 June 2003
Rafah, home of the strongest people in the world

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