I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey - Plot & Excerpts
This adventure would move me one step closer to my dream of escaping the poverty that was choking my family. I was excited and full of anticipation about this next stage in my life. The scholarship was a doorway to the world, a ticket to learn. I felt like I was at the beginning of a journey I’d been praying for since I was a young child. I’d applied for the scholarship during my last year of high school. The University of Cairo accepted two hundred Palestinian students every year in twenty different faculties, including medicine, engineering, pharmacy, teaching and law. I had top grades, so I hoped I could get into the medicine school, but I applied to every faculty just in case. The way the system worked was that you applied and then waited a full year after high school before you learned whether you had been accepted. I would need money for room and board in Cairo, so for that year I worked every day I could in Israel. The border between Gaza and Israel was open at that time, so it was easy to cross back and forth on a daily basis; you only had to present your identification card at a gateway and the Israeli official would wave you through.
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