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Deah Barakat was a second-year student at UNC's School of Dentistry. He gave free dental supplies to homeless people and was working with his wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, on a project to send dental supplies to Syrian refugees. On February 10, 2015, he, Yusor and her sister Razan Abu-Salha were murdered in the couple's Chapel Hill apartment by a neighbor who targeted them as Arab American Muslims.
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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Barakat, Deah, -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.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Barakat, Deah, -2015.
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