The New York Times · 19 December 1993

CP-1993-035

Facing the Future

Youssef M. Ibrahim

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Transcribed from the clipping

“She turned Mr. Arafat down when he offered her the chance to be the first Palestinian ambassador to Washington; she resigned, saying she will devote herself to Palestinian human rights.”

Context added by this archive

Hanan Ashrawi refuses an embassy to work on human rights, three months after the handshake. The photograph on the same page is of Palestinian women demanding the release of prisoners from Israeli jails. Self-criticism and self-rule arriving in the same section.

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"Facing the Future," The New York Times, 19 December 1993. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1993-035. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1993-035

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