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Tariq Jordan
Tariq Jordan is an actor and writer. He has dual Arab-Muslim and European-Jewish heritage
April 2019
A Palestinian boy with a gun to his head asked if I was OK. I still think about him
Tariq Jordan
On a bus in the West Bank, fearing for our lives, this 13-year-old boy taught me the true power of empathy, says the playwright and actor Tariq Jordan
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