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Jul 2 2009, Marco Villa

Yusif Bedas was part of that generation of Palestinians who were supposed to lead a renaissance in the Arab world. The son of a prominent Palestinian Christian writer, Khalil Bedad, whom himself preached an Arab cultural revival; Yusif was forced to live.

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