Mideast Discord Thwarts A Palestinian Love Story (on NPR.org)

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112761560&sc=fbc They are engaged — Amani, a Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip, and Basheer, her fiance who lives in the West Bank. But even though they are both of the same religion and the same nationality, they cannot get married.

The house he has built for her sits in an orchard filled with ripe pomegranates, figs and lemons. It's fully furnished, but everything is too neatly in its place. It's lifeless, a home waiting to be lived in...[READ MORE]