(Arizona Daily Star) March 28, 2010, By Karin Laub
Suleiman Baraka's journey could be measured in light-years: the eldest of 14 children of a butcher, he rose from humble beginnings in violence-wracked Gaza to become an astrophysicist, space weather expert and researcher for NASA, the U.S. space agency. Now, at 45, he is back home with a new mission - to teach kids to look up from their blockaded, beaten-down surroundings and into the limitless beauty of the universe. He has procured the first known telescope in Gaza, a donation from the International Astronomical Union, and plans to introduce astronomy in Gaza's three universities.
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