David Fahleaon/Daily Nebraskan
Nermine Samir, Egypt, and Lara Khatib, Lebanon, cheer at
the Nebraska-Utah state football game Saturday in Memorial
Stadium. The two were in Lincoln on a visit to the United
States.
Visit changes opinions
Arab students discover American reality
By Joeth Zucco
Senior Hditor
Five weeks in the United States
have changed several Middle Eastern
students’ ideas about this country.
Twenty students from 10 Arab
countries were in Lincoln last week as
part of a federally funded program
sponsored by the U.S. Information
Agency. The program brings citizens
from all over the world to the United
States.
The students were nominated by
their teachers and interviewed at the
American embassy in each of their
countries.
Rania Barghout, a sophomore
communication arts, radio, television
and theater major at Beirut University
College in Lebanon, said she had bad
impressions of the United Slates be
fore her visit.
“1 thought that people only go to
bars, go steady, dance and sleep,”
Barghout said in near perfect English.
“They were really vicious and mean.
It came from the media — Dallas and
Dynasty. People didn’t care what
happened in Lebanon or the Middle
East, they were only concerned with
their own poliucs.”
Barghout said her views changed
once she arrived in the United States.
“(In the) North, people were ex
tremely nice, showed us they did
care,” she said. “(In the) Midwest,
they arc very serious, very business
minded, very concerned about the
Middle East all over.”
Barghout said some of the people
her group have met along the way
thought they were terrorists.
“I hope weehanged their opinion,”
she said.
Saad Achaari, a senior English
major at University Mohamed Ben
Adcllah in Rabat, Morocco, said he
didn’t know much about the United
States when he first came except what
he had learned in school.
“I wasn’t too surprised by what I
saw,” Achaari said. “Nearly all the
things I’ve been told arc somewhat
true.
“My mceungs with Americans
make me sure that these people love
their country very much.”
Nermine Samir, a 5th-ycar medi
cal student at Suez Canal University
in Ismailia, Egypt, also had a bad
impression of the United States, “but
after I came, the media gives not an
accurate picture of America. (They
are) hard workers and very friendly.
“Youth in America is not con
cerned about social or political life
outside the United States,” she said. “I
met many young students at Missis
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AIDS exhibit this week
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Garland Bare, a member of the
UNL Task Force on AIDS Education,
said that people are still ignorant to
the fact that they can get the disease.
“People still look upon it as a San
Francisco and New York disease,”
Bare said. “In young adults, there’s a
sense of vulnerability. ‘It can happen
to them, but not to me.’”
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minutes to study the exhibit, Young
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the disease and from the pain the
families arc experiencing.
Young said the exhibit will run
through the semester. Afterwards, he
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