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Yusor Abu-Salha had been admitted to UNC's School of Dentistry for the fall of 2015. She had married Deah Barakat, a dental student, about six weeks before her death. On February 10, 2015, she, Barakat and her 19-year-old sister Razan were shot and killed at their condominium in Chapel Hill. About 2,000 people gathered for a vigil in the Pit the next day.
Source: UNC-Chapel Hill: A call for unity
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A documentary film by Tarek Albaba on the 2015 killing of Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha and Razan Abu-Salha in Chapel Hill, produced by Video Project in 2023 and issued from San Francisco. It concerns hate crimes against Muslims and Arab Americans in Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Abu-Salha, Yusor, -2015.
Margaret Talbot's 2015 magazine article on the killing of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, Deah Barakat and Razan and Yusor Abu-Salha, published in New York by Condé Nast. It reports on what led to the February 2015 murders near the university and on the treatment of the case as a hate crime.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Abu-Salha, Yusor, -2015.
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