From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Craig Corrie was published by The Guardian on January 18, 2016.
“Alan Rickman gave the greatest gift to my late daughter, Rachel Corrie”
My family and I were saddened on Thursday morning to learn of the death of Alan Rickman – too sad to write our feelings at the time. Alan, of course, is famous as an actor and director, both on stage and in film. But we first came to know him when, with Katharine Viner (now editor-in-chief of the Guardian), he edited our daughter Rachel’s writing into the play My Name is Rachel Corrie. The care Alan took for our family, his courage to take on this particular project and, most of all, the respect he showed for Rachel and her writing, impress me still as truly extraordinary.
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