When I was a law student backpacking through the Middle East in 1982, I met two Palestinian university students on a local bus in the West Bank. We got to chatting and they invited me to their homes, so I jumped off the bus and spent a day with them in the jumbled alleys of the densely populated Dheisheh Refugee Camp. I wrote their names in my address book, but we never made contact again — until now. With the help of a local reporter who called around at the Dheisheh camp, I was able to locate them: Saleh Molhem, now 63 and graying, and Mahmoud Qaraqei, now 60. Both were still living in the same refugee camp.

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Persons: Saleh Molhem, Mahmoud Qaraqei Organizations: West Bank, Bethlehem University, Hamas, America Locations: Cairo, Israel