Knapp First-Generation Student Award Recipient: Lia Abuhsira
Throughout my gap year in Israel, I took the train weekly to Jerusalem for Hebrew lessons with my Safta, my grandmother. Safta鈥檚 family emigrated from Morocco to Israel during World War II, as antisemitic propaganda plagued northern Africa. The political and financial instability of that time meant that university wasn鈥檛 an option for my Safta. […]
