Profile of Palestinian Peace Activist Yasser Najjar

NPR | By Linda Gradstein

Published December 16, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

NPR's Linda Gradstein profiles a senior official of the Palestinian Authority. Yasser Najjar had to overcome his hatred of Israelis after witnessing his father's assassination by Israeli soldiers as a child. Najjir has since become a staunch advocate of peace.

Linda Gradstein

Linda Gradstein has been the Israel correspondent for NPR since 1990. She is a member of the team that received the Overseas Press Club award for her coverage of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the team that received Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia University Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism for her coverage of the Gulf War. Linda spent 1998-9 as a Knight Journalist Fellow at Stanford University.

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