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29
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by Mirth
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Sawsan Salameh should have spent this week in the laboratories at Hebrew university starting to work on her PhD in theoretical chemistry.
But instead the 29-year-old Palestinian from the West Bank has carried on working as a science teacher at a local high school.
Despite being given a full scholarship by the Hebrew University to pursue her studies, Ms Salameh has fallen foul of new Israeli army regulations preventing Palestinian students from entering Israel on security grounds.
“It’s been my dream since I was 16 to get a doctorate,” says Ms Salameh sitting in her family’s apartment in Anata.
From the end of her road you can see the university in the distance but a dusty Israeli checkpoint stands between Ms Salameh and further study.
“It’s my dream to become a professor of chemistry,” she says. “But now I feel my whole future is on hold.”
