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Life in Ramallah

Life in Ramallah
By on September 20, 2010

The most frustrating thing about living in Ramallah and studying in a graduate program at Hebrew University in Jerusalem was that I was never on time. Less than ten miles apart, the two cities are divided by a twenty-foot cement wall and the corresponding checkpoint, Qalandiya, could make an otherwise twenty-minute drive take up to two hours.