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Dan Pearson, 27, is Co-Coordinator for Voices for Creative Nonviolence and works with the Catholic Worker Community in Chicago. In early 2006 he spent nearly 3 months in Damascus, Syria learning Arabic, and meeting with Iraqi refugees living there. Later in 2006 he joined the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions for a summer rebuilding project in Palestine. In 2007 Dan Spent 5 months learning Arabic and living among Palestinian and Iraqi refugees in Yarmouk camp near Damascus, Syria.