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Posted January 25, 2016 in UT Life

Across Jude Chehab’s resume are the words director, cinematographer, writer. As a little girl growing up first in New York and Florida, then in Lebanon, her mother gave her three other words to weigh carefully, three words she would embrace and use to become the three on her resume today: woman, Muslim, Arab.

“This immediate awareness of responsibility ignited a flame within me instantly,” Chehab ’16 wrote on her application for an upcoming film workshop. “It is a very rare feeling in life to feel ignited, to feel as though the entire world around you has just appeared and with every flame within you, you plan to face it.”

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