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Jallow Award Recipients
Posted on Thursday May 11, 2006
The Raymond Jallow Awards for Public Service are presented to deserving candidates whose commitment to public service reflects the life of the Awards’ namesake. The grant is awarded to a student or adult who is actively involved in or plans to participate in public service. Examples of activities include preparing for foreign service, clerking for a judge, running for office, and specializing in public administration. In 2009, one $1000 grant was awarded to Hammad Hammad.
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2009 Award Recipient
Hammad Hammad
Hammad Hammad, a Palestinian-American immigrant from Livermore, California, is a Fulbright Scholar in the Netherlands, comparing European and American approaches to ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
Hammad graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service in 2008. At Georgetown, he served as the President of Students for Justice in Palestine and was the co-founder of Harakat, an annual Arab cultural showcase. He also wrote for the campus newspaper The Hoya, produced a documentary film about immigrant youth, and served as a Resident Advisor. Internships include placements on Capitol Hill, with the American-Arab anti-Discrimination Committee, and Brookings Institute Saban Center for Middle East Studies.
After graduation, Hammad co-founded an NGO called Inspire Dreams, and created “Camp I Have a Dream”, a summer camp for refugee youth in the Dheisheh, Jalazon, and al-Azzeh refugee camps in the West Bank.
In the fall of 2009 he will begin graduate school at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as a Rangel Fellow and will begin a career in the U.S. Foreign Service in 2011.
