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Living Dangerously In Bethlehem

How a Palestinian woman who moved to a refugee camp in Bethlehem suffered depression

Muna Hamzeh describes living in the Dheisheh refugee camp in the West Bank. She was raised in the USA, but decided to move to the camp outside Bethlehem to live with her husband. She talks about her experience of going from a life of privilege and safety in the West to a world of danger and death, and the depression she experienced as a result.

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28 minutes

大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project