Middle East studies in the News

Arabic Principal: I'll Keep Fighting [on Dhaba "Debbie" Almontaser]

by Matthew Nestel
The New York Post
January 30, 2008

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01302008/news/regionalnews/arabic_principal__ill_keep_fighting_496412.htm

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/4747

The ousted former principal of the city's Arabic school packed a Brooklyn church yesterday, where she vowed to keep fighting for her old job.

"The [Department of Education] board members need to be held accountable," Debbie Almontaser tearfully told several hundred supporters in Park Slope.

She resigned under pressure from the Khalil Gibran International Academy last summer after publicly defending the term "intifada" on a T-shirt.

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