On April 27, Hawa Saleh ’24 presented a paper titled “Irreconcilable Rhetorics, Cultural Erasure, and Nuancing Violence: Yasser Arafat’s PLO versus the State of Israel in November 1974” at the regional conference of Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honors society, held at the University at Buffalo. Saleh’s essay was one of several to receive an Outstanding Paper Prize.
Saleh is graduating with three majors: history, English and creative writing. She is a member of the All-College Honors Program, vice president of the Honors Student Association, president of the Canisius chapter of Young Democratic Socialists of America, vice master of Di Gamma, a Canisius Earning Excellence Program award winner and a writing center tutor.
Saleh’s essay was developed in two courses, Modern Middle East and the history senior seminar, taught by Dr. David Devereaux, the faculty advisor of the Canisius chapter of Phi Alpha Theta.
Submitted by: Mick Cochrane, Professor, Department of English
