Mohammed first traveled from Nuseirat camp to the United States in 2009, when he participated in the Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program. He served as a cultural exchange ambassador for an academic year, living with an American family in Ohio. In 2011, Mohammed was chosen by AMIDEAST for the Diana Kamal Scholarship, which assisted him in applying to American colleges. In 2015, he finished his undergraduate education at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania and graduated with a joint major in public policy and government.
Mohammed then returned to Gaza and both served as We Are Not Numbers project manager and a teacher for AMIDEAST. In 2017, he returned to the United States to pursue his masters degree in political science at Southern Illinois University.
My hope is that when my children, or the children of my children, experience peace in their land, they will look at each other and say, how dare they? Just as we now do with the Holocaust.
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I am studying in the United States, which was my dream. But how can I be happy when my people are being killed?
Guilt is what I feel as I write these words in the comfort of my student apartment in the United States.
Dear African-Americans: I am not black. But I am not white. And your injustice is my injustice.
