Spirit In Action

A visit with the founder of The Hope Fund, a project to help connect promising, but poor, young people from the Palestinian refugee camps with special college scholarships here in the USA. Fahim Qubain, himself raised in the Middle East, found his way up via the education he received at the Ramallah Friends School in, at that time, Palestine, graduating in 1942. He labors on, diligently and remarkably, at the age of 82. Fahim, a Ph.D. in International Relations, has spent decades as a consultant on the Middle East and is the author of several books, including "Inside The Arab Mind" and "Crisis In Lebanon", as well as numerous other articles, studies and monographs on the Middle East. His wife, Nancy Qubain, has a masters in Middle East Studies and has worked as a Foreign Affairs Analyst. Hope Fund students included in this interview: Khaled El-Nemr - graduate of Roanoke College 2005 Shireen Abu-Khiran - freshman at Bridgewater College Mohammed Haroun - junior at Bridgewater College Music featured: The Hills o