No UW Students Are Studying In Gaza Now
Wisconsin State Journal, January 4, 2009
University officials say there are no UW-Madison students studying in Gaza as Israel, which has been aiming air strikes at the area, now has launched a ground operation into Gaza. But Jennifer Loewenstein, associate director of UW-Madison’s Middle East Studies Program, said she was supposed to be there. After living in Gaza for six months in 2002, Loewenstein said she has been back almost every year since.
She was planning to attend a conference there sponsored by the World Health Organization in October, she said, but Israel banned all foreign participants from entering. Loewenstein postponed her travels until January, but she said she won’t go to the embattled zone now.
UW-Madison’s only program in Israel is at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There are four students studying there for the 2008-09 academic year, said Matt Geisler, assistant director of International Academic Programs. There is also one student from Gaza who is studying in Madison.
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