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In 2002, Laura Dunn was packing her bags for the Middle East. The University of Texas at Austin film graduate student had spent four years making documentaries about social and environmental justice issues in the United States, and was now on her way to the Arabah Desert, on the Israel-Jordan border, to direct a movie […]https://www.texasobserver.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/about-the-texas-observer.jpg740402