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    Protests in US spur some in Middle East to look in the mirror

    by Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times Jun 23, 2020 5 minutes

    BEIRUT - Early in life, Maryam Abu Khaled saw that she was treated differently than others. As a child in her West Bank hometown of Jenin, the Black Palestinian had schoolmates who wouldn't sit beside her, fearing her color would rub off on them. Mothers of friends would warn their kids to stay out of the sun so they don't "get burned and become like Maryam." A family refused to marry their son to one of Abu Khaled's friends because the woman was too dark-skinned.

    "I just thought, 'I have darker skin than she does. What would they say about me?'" Abu Khaled, 29, said in a phone interview

    Which was why, when cries of solidarity rose in the Middle East in support of African Americans after the death of George

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