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World Service,07 Jul 2001,28 mins

Living Dangerously In Bethlehem

Everywoman

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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. Also on the programme: Girls versus boys in mathematics - is one sex out-performing the other? A look at the Nepalese women breaking the mould by finishing their education and finding independence. Plus, the show meets the world's sexiest geek!

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